![]() Activist Leymah Gbowee was labelled the “Liberian Lysistrata” after the western press picked up on the fact that the women’s movement in Liberia had staged such a strike in its efforts to end the civil war in 2002. Lysistrata, performed by a male cast to a (probably) largely male audience, is a comedic fantasy, not a feminist call to armsīut the play, performed by a male cast to a (probably) largely male audience is a comedic fantasy, not a feminist call to arms. This idea is often identified as deriving from Aristophanes’ comedy Lysistrata, in which the women of war-plagued Greece decide to withhold sex from their men until peace is established. One passage, for example, deals with the sex strike as a tool of resistance. ![]() Morales does not write only about stories from mythology as such, but also about the myths the modern world has created from classical texts. ![]() The subtitle is “The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths”. ![]()
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