Lysistrata: The Sex Strike (Absolute Classics)

by Germaine Greer (Author), PhilWillmott (Author), Aristophanes (Author)

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  2000

  $17.61

  Lysistrata, the play's heroine persuades the women to barricade themselves inside a building, refusing to give their husbands sex until they negotiate an end to the Peloponnesian War and secure peace. She also persuades the women of Sparta,the enemy, to join her cause and refuse sex to their husbands until they agree to stop the war.

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  2005

  $18.89

  Frustrated at the ongoing violence of the civil war, Lysistrata decides that the women of Athens must take matters into their own hands. Against heartfelt resistance, she eventually persuades the female population that the only way to make peace is to stop making love: they will deny their husbands sex until a treaty has been signed.