Depression is not sexually stimulating, yet there exist multiple cultural representations of deeply unhappy women, who reach the height of their beauty when suicidal, or dead. From Ophelia, damsels in distress and swooning Victorian hysterics, ending with contemporary fashion, female suffering is glamourized. My paper answers the question why female depression is presented as sexy by culture. I seek the explanation in gender stereotypes as well as the tradition of ‘heroic melancholia’.Depresja nie jest czynnikiem zwiększającym atrakcyjność, jednak wiele kulturowych przedstawień ukazuje kobiety, które wydają się szczególnie powabne w chwili samobójczej śmierci. Zaczynając od Ofelii, poprzez mdlejące wiktoriańskie histeryczki, skończywszy na ...
The body and the stigma. Defloration as an act of building femininity The paper offers an analysis...
Men and women might experience various kinds of depression in varied ways, and while they do share m...
The gender based nature of suicide and suicide related behaviour is now largely accepted. Over the p...
In writing this thesis, the writer discusses the depression of women because of patriarchal traditio...
abstract: The following study is an attempt to analyze the idea of the abject through the grotesque ...
The article focuses on Estonian decadent art of the early twentieth century that manifests the topic...
In writing this thesis, the writer discusses the depression of women because of patriarchal traditio...
Depression presents a prevalent and pervading issue of today’s modern world. While it effects both g...
Although much attention has been paid to the consequences of objectification, relatively little rese...
Celem pracy było ukazanie w jaki sposób jest przedstawiana femme fatale w literaturze i malarstwie. ...
Depression: sadness or disease?Depression is one of the most frequent mental disorders defined under...
abstract: This paper analyzes the epidemiology of the disease 'hysteria', once thought to be a uniqu...
Both novels analysed in the article (Władysław Reymont’s Vampire written at the beginning of the 20t...
Przedmiotem niniejszej pracy są tworzone przez mężczyzn teksty kultury, w których pojawia się motyw ...
There exists something like beautiful life. Is it possible to die beautifully? Is there a beauty tha...
The body and the stigma. Defloration as an act of building femininity The paper offers an analysis...
Men and women might experience various kinds of depression in varied ways, and while they do share m...
The gender based nature of suicide and suicide related behaviour is now largely accepted. Over the p...
In writing this thesis, the writer discusses the depression of women because of patriarchal traditio...
abstract: The following study is an attempt to analyze the idea of the abject through the grotesque ...
The article focuses on Estonian decadent art of the early twentieth century that manifests the topic...
In writing this thesis, the writer discusses the depression of women because of patriarchal traditio...
Depression presents a prevalent and pervading issue of today’s modern world. While it effects both g...
Although much attention has been paid to the consequences of objectification, relatively little rese...
Celem pracy było ukazanie w jaki sposób jest przedstawiana femme fatale w literaturze i malarstwie. ...
Depression: sadness or disease?Depression is one of the most frequent mental disorders defined under...
abstract: This paper analyzes the epidemiology of the disease 'hysteria', once thought to be a uniqu...
Both novels analysed in the article (Władysław Reymont’s Vampire written at the beginning of the 20t...
Przedmiotem niniejszej pracy są tworzone przez mężczyzn teksty kultury, w których pojawia się motyw ...
There exists something like beautiful life. Is it possible to die beautifully? Is there a beauty tha...
The body and the stigma. Defloration as an act of building femininity The paper offers an analysis...
Men and women might experience various kinds of depression in varied ways, and while they do share m...
The gender based nature of suicide and suicide related behaviour is now largely accepted. Over the p...