Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary"Devoting different sections of the book to each of the various roles Mary has assumed - Virgin, Queen, Bride, Mother, Intercessor - and drawing on official dogma, folk legend, art, history, literature and psychology, the author of Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circumstances from the first century to the present day, and why, for all their beauty and power (and indeed because of them), the legends of Virgin Mary have condemned real women to perpetual inferiority"--Google books description |
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Page 52
... woman and not a man to be Adam's companion ? But the sex that Adam and Eve enjoyed was different in kind , untainted by con- cupiscence , not flawed by the sufferings of possible pregnancy.5 Through the virgin birth Mary conquered the ...
... woman and not a man to be Adam's companion ? But the sex that Adam and Eve enjoyed was different in kind , untainted by con- cupiscence , not flawed by the sufferings of possible pregnancy.5 Through the virgin birth Mary conquered the ...
Page 58
... woman is the cause of the Fall , the wicked temptress , the accomplice of Satan , and the destroyer of mankind . The fury unleashed against Eve and all her kind is almost flattering , so exaggerated is the picture of women's fatal and ...
... woman is the cause of the Fall , the wicked temptress , the accomplice of Satan , and the destroyer of mankind . The fury unleashed against Eve and all her kind is almost flattering , so exaggerated is the picture of women's fatal and ...
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... woman whom he would be ashamed to marry , is crucial , for it indicates the exclusively aristocratic context of courtly love , and secondly implies the importance of the woman's social position in marriage transactions of his class and ...
... woman whom he would be ashamed to marry , is crucial , for it indicates the exclusively aristocratic context of courtly love , and secondly implies the importance of the woman's social position in marriage transactions of his class and ...
Contents
MARY IN THE GOSPELS | 3 |
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA | 25 |
VIRGIN BIRTH | 34 |
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