The female body: history, heritage and culture

Abstract

The body is central to everything. It is the form from which all forms come together and with which all forms converge, and it is basically the stable form that can absorb a series of human actions and practices, such as sexual intercourse. He is present in everything, in art, philosophy, myth, literature, science, politics and ethics. Everything revolves around the body and the sensual and moral pleasure it excites. And because the female body is directly related to this pleasure, I decided to shed light on it by revealing the dialectical relationship between it and sex as a practice through which the characteristics of this body are manifested, as well as revealing the transformation of the perception of the female body from the sacred to the profane through its alienation and the designation of women as a second-class being. Or the third in the domineering patriarchal society that views it as created only for