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“But the unusual thing about misogyny is the elaborate intellectual superstructure that has for so long supported and celebrated it, not as blind spot or as pernicious ideology but, on the contrary, as perfect vision.”

“Accounts of the muse-artist relation were anchored in the ideas of male cultural production as a special category, one with particular needs—usually sexual—that the muse had been there to fulfil, perhaps even to the point of exploitation, but without whom we would have missed the opportunity to enjoy this or that beloved cultural artefact.”