Lysistrata
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Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, first staged in early 411 BCE at Lenaea festival in classical Athens. The play is a comic account of a woman's – Lysistrata's – mission to end th
Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley, 1896 Dramatis Personae in ancient comedy depend on scholars' interpretation of textual evidence. This list is based on Alan Sommerstein's 1973 translation.
A 2007 staging of Lysistrata
From the 2005 staging of Lysistrata produced in Central Park.
Sex strike
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A sex strike, more formally known as Lysistratic nonaction, is a method of nonviolent resistance in which one or more persons refrain from or refuse sex with partners until policy or social demands ar
Lysistrata
…states by denying sex from all the men of warring parties and occupying the Acropolis of Athens. Lysistrata persuades the women of the warring cities to engage in a sex strike as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace – a strategy that inflames the battle between the sexes. The play's structure represents a shift from…
Ukrainian activist group Femen calling for a sex strike to protest against the sexual exploitation of women.
Marble stele of Lysistrate
Leymah Gbowee, awarded with 2011 Nobel Peace Prize