Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary

by Marina Warner

Overview

Shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circumstances and why for all their beauty and power,the legends of Mary have condemned real women to perpetual inferiority.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780394711553
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/12/1983
Pages:	496
Sales rank:	504,144
Product dimensions:	5.18(w) x 7.93(h) x 1.04(d)

About the Author

Marina Warner is a prize-winning novelist and cultural historian whose works include From the Beast to the Blonde, Managing Monsters (the 1994 Reith Lectures), Indigo and The Lost Father (shortlisted for the Booker Prize).

Editorial Reviews

"Dramatic, informative and entertaining...a substantial and provocative book." - TLS

"A work of remarkably elegant and eloquent scholarship." - Observer

"Astonishing and enlightening.... packed with scholarship, imagery, vivid selection, and wry contrastive comment." - Margaret Mead

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