521 The Empress Messalina (with Honor Cargill-Martin) | My Last Book with Robert Chandler
The History of Literature
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The Importance of Female Sexuality
The idea is, well, having a woman's sexuality is like an unfair advantage it's a weapon that if it's wielded it can be so powerful. Do you think there's this feeling that she was in a world where there were all these power struggles? She becomes quite a sort of icon of that fair and I think that's also something that we see in the way that she's received in later kind of art and writing as well.
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