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

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

Marina Warner

410 pages first pub 1976 (view editions) user-added

nonfiction feminism history religion challenging informative fast-paced
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This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations of Catholicism and ideas of ideal femininity over the longue duree. An ambitious history of the changing symbolism of the Mother of God, Alone of Al...

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