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Judith: Sexual Warrior: Women and Power in Western Culture
Women and Power in Western CultureThe Old Testament story of the widow Judith -- the irresistible siren who lured her people's deadly enemy Holofernes to his death, beheading him in his own bed to save Jerusalem -- is an enduring cultural myth in Western society. In this original and provocative book, Margarita Stocker explores the Western fascination with the image of Jud...more
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
October 11th 1998
by Yale University Press
(first published 1998)
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If nothing else, I feel like I am doing my inner feminist due diligence with this one. WOW it is MEATY (haa, irony intended). Good lord there is so much to digest, and this book is written from such an academic perspective that it likely will not interest a general audience. Stocker is an art historian and speaks to the cultural significance of the Apocryphal bible character Judith, whose story has been represented countless times on canvasses across the western world, by a multitude of artists,...more
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