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Medusa: The Feminine Gaze

Carved stone relief of Medusa with serpents coiling through her hair beneath a crescent motif

When the Victim Must Become the Monster There are myths we inherit as stories, and then there are myths that quietly reveal the architecture of the civilization telling them. Medusa is one of those myths. Most of us were introduced to her as a monster: snakes for hair, a hideous face, a gaze capable of…

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