Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Mar 12, 1983 - Religion - 496 pages
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.

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Contents

MARY IN THE GOSPELS
3
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA
25
VIRGIN BIRTH
34
SECOND EVE
50
VIRGINS AND MARTYRS
68
Part Two QUEEN
79
THE ASSUMPTION 88888
81
MARIA REGINA
103
THE MILK OF PARADISE
192
MATER DOLOROSA
206
THE PENITENT WHORE
224
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
236
THE MOON AND THE STARS
255
GROWTH IN EVERY THING
273
ICONS AND RELICS
285
VISIONS THE ROSARY AND WAR
299

Part Three BRIDE
119
THE SONG OF SONGS
121
TROUBADOURS
134
IO MADONNA
149
DANTE BEATRICE AND THE VIRGIN MARY
160
Part Four MOTHER
175
LET IT BE
177
THE HOUR OF OUR DEATH 375
306
EPILOGUE
333
St Lukes Magnificat
342
Notes
365
Select Bibliography
395
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Marina Warner is a prize-winning novelist and cultural historian whose works include From the Beast to the Blonde, Managing Monsters (the 1994 Reith Lectures), Indigo and The Lost Father (shortlisted for the Booker Prize).

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