Women's Lib - a movement directed towards the removal of attitudes and practices that preserve inequalities based upon the assumption that men are superior to women.
aesthetics - is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, beauty and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.
Dandy - a man unduly concerned with looking stylish and fashionable.
Narcissism - excessive interest in or admiration of oneself and one's physical appearance.
Menarche - the first occurrence of menstruation.
Rubens - Sir Peter Paul. 1577–1640, Flemish painter, regarded as the greatest exponent of the Baroque: appointed (1609) painter to Archduke Albert of Austria, who gave him many commissions, artistic and diplomatic.
Renoir - Pierre Auguste (pjɛr oɡyst). 1841–1919, French painter. One of the initiators of impressionism, he broke away from the movement with his later paintings, esp his many nude studies, which are more formal compositions
Freudian - relating to or influenced by Sigmund Freud and his methods of psychoanalysis, especially with reference to the importance of sexuality in human behavior.
Amenorrhoea - an abnormal absence of menstruation
Moroseness - gloomily or sullenly ill-humoured, as a person or mood.
cadaver - a corpse
passive receptive - passive - not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling. receptive having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
succubus - a demon in female form, said to have sexual intercourse with men in their sleep.
