Judith : sexual warrior, women and power in Western culture/ Margarita Stocker.
Judith : sexual warrior, women and power in Western culture/ Margarita Stocker.
Judith : sexual warrior, women and power in Western culture/ Margarita Stocker.
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Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, c1998.
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T0377815
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 278 p., 36 p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. Beginning -- 2. The Gorgeous Gorgon: Women and Power in the Myths of Judith -- 3. Her Virtue Was Vice: Christian Allegory and the Selling of Sex -- 4. Worshipping Women: The Battle of the Sexes in Reformation Europe -- 5. The Monstrous Regiment of Judiths: Power and Gender in the Renaissance -- 6...
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Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, c1998.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
c1998.
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Summary
"The Old Testament story of the widow Judith - the irresistible siren who lured her people's deadly enemy, Holofernes, to his death, beheading him to save Jerusalem - is an enduring cultural myth in Western society. In this book, Margarita Stocker explores the Western fascination with the image of Judith and the abundance of interpretations that ha...
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Judith : sexual warrior, women and power in Western culture/ Margarita Stocker.
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Includes index.
Transferred from N229.2406/1.
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c1998.
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T0377815
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74VM0JoNJGXl
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ISBN
0300073658 :
9780300073652 (alk. paper)
0300073658 (alk. paper)
9780300073652 :
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229.2406
MMS ID
991001703469702626
