Alone of All Her Sex: Cult of the Virgin Mary

Alone of All Her Sex: Cult of the Virgin Mary

by Marina Warner (Author)

Synopsis

First published in 1976, the author demonstrates a long-lived and continuing process which has been, and still is, used to the detriment of women as she shares her perspective insights into the many-layered construction the fully developed cult of the Virgin was to become.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06 Apr 2000

ISBN 10: 0099284499
ISBN 13: 9780099284499

Media 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