{"product_id":"medusa-by-david-leeming-9781780230955","title":"Medusa","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMedusa\u003c\/em\u003e literally petrifies: her face turned the ancients to stone. For Perseus and his patriarchal culture, she was a dangerous female monster that had to be destroyed; for Dante, she was the erotic power that could destroy men. Freud saw in her hair a nest of terrifying penises signalling castration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet in our time, Medusa's reputation has improved: feminists see her as a noble victim of patriarchy, and the designer Versace celebrates the lure of her mysterious face in a logo that stares at us from his ads for men's underwear, haute couture, and exotic dinnerware. In our modern culture, she is once again a power player demanding to be recognised; Medusa, it seems, still has the power to transfix us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Leeming's \u003cem\u003eMedusa\u003c\/em\u003e explores how and why the mythical figure of the gorgon has become one of the most important and enduring ideas in human history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463608090860,"sku":"9781780230955","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781780230955-medusa.jpg?v=1775035070","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/medusa-by-david-leeming-9781780230955","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}