Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth & the Cult of the Virgin Mary by Marina Warner

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

Marina Warner

400 pages first pub 1976 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history religion challenging informative fast-paced
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"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: Th...

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