Sex & Aging: Censorship of the Aging Tantra Goddess

Why do patriarchal cultures are threatened by femme power? Why do they hide the aging femme body from public eye? Why are these cultures obsessed with femme bodies looking young? How do they respond when an aging femme body displays eroticism?

This class explores the cultural discomfort, visual erasure of erotic, aging goddesses, particularly focusing on the Tantric representation of Chamunda at the Jasmalnathji Temple in Gujarat, India.