Творец, субъект, женщина: Стратегии женского письма в русском символизме.

«As the nineteenth century drew on, however, the metaphors of male motherhood became commonplace — as did those of male midwifery. The artist conceived, was pregnant, laboured (in sweet and pain), was delivered, and (in an uncontrolled ecstasy of agonised — male — control) brought forth. These were images of „natural“ childbirth that the male creators elaborated. (…) The tendency to promote the artist as a male mother reached its apogee in the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche».