Explore the Feminist perspective of this artwork, Lady Lilith.
In myth, Lilith is a powerful, threatening, sexual woman who resists domination by men.  Thus she has been considered a symbol of the feminist movement.  In the painting she concentrates on her own beauty, luxuriates in her free, sensual hair, lacks the usual Victorian corset, and wears "clothes that look as if they are soon to be removed."In The Power of Women's Hair in the Victorian Imagination, Elizabeth G. Gitter writes:The more abundant the hair, the more potent the sexual invitation implied in its display. For folk, literary and psychoanalytic traditions agree that the luxuriance of the hair is an index of vigorous sexuality, even of wantonness.
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