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Marina Warner explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female form, and examines the tension between women's historic and symbolic roles. Drawing on the evidence of public art, especially sculpture, and painting, poetry, and classical mythology, she ranges over the allegorical presence of the woman in the Western tradition with a sharply observant eye and a piquant and engaging style.
Price: $33.95
Pages: 440
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
24 April 2001
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520227330
Format: Paperback
Among Marina Warner's books are From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (1995), Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1983), and Joan of Arc (California, 1999).
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD
Part One: The Female Presence Today
1 The Monument (New York)
2 The Street (Paris)
3 The Front Page (London)
Part Two: The Figure in Myth
4 Engendered Images
5 The Bed of Odysseus
6 The Aegis of Athena
7 The Goddess of Success
8 The Sword of Justice
9 Lady Wisdom
Part Three: The Body in Allegory
10 The Making of Pandora
11 The Sieve of Tuccia
12 The Slipped Chiton
13 Nuda Veritas
Epilogue
The Eyes of Tiresias
ABBREVIATIONS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD
Part One: The Female Presence Today
1 The Monument (New York)
2 The Street (Paris)
3 The Front Page (London)
Part Two: The Figure in Myth
4 Engendered Images
5 The Bed of Odysseus
6 The Aegis of Athena
7 The Goddess of Success
8 The Sword of Justice
9 Lady Wisdom
Part Three: The Body in Allegory
10 The Making of Pandora
11 The Sieve of Tuccia
12 The Slipped Chiton
13 Nuda Veritas
Epilogue
The Eyes of Tiresias
ABBREVIATIONS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES
INDEX