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Alone of All Her Sex

The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary

By Marina Warner

By Marina Warner

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Paperback $20.00

Mar 12, 1983 | ISBN 9780394711553

Alone of All Her Sex by Marina Warner
Paperback $20.00
Mar 12, 1983 | ISBN 9780394711553

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About Alone of All Her Sex

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.

About Marina Warner

Marina Warner is a novelist, cultural historian, and critic. Her fiction includes Indigo and The Lost Father (winner of a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), as well as a collection of stories, Mermaids in the Basement…. More about Marina Warner

Product Details

Category: Religion | Biography & Memoir

Paperback | $20.00
Published by Vintage
Mar 12, 1983 | 496 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780394711553

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Praise

"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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