Pre-Owned Judith: Sexual Warrior: Women and Power in Western Culture (Hardcover) 0300073658 9780300073652
Pre-Owned Judith: Sexual Warrior: Women and Power in Western Culture (Hardcover) 0300073658 9780300073652
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Pre-Owned Judith: Sexual Warrior: Women and Power in Western Culture (Hardcover) 0300073658 9780300073652

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  • ISBN: 9780300073652
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  • Language: English
  • Pages: 288
  • Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 288 p.
  • The Old Testament story of the widow Judith - the 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 book, Margarita Stocker explores the Western fascination with the image of Judith and the abundance of interpretations that have surrounded her at different times between the early Middle Ages and the present day. The myth of Judith provides a key to modern society's view of women and power, the book argues. In dealing with the threatening image of a powerful "femme fatale" who is also a saint, the vested interests of Western culture have deliberately, often deviously, subverted images of sex and death as a way of marginalizing women and protecting traditional notions of masculinity. The book investigates the periodic resurgence of the Judith legend and how the myth and history become confused. An ambiguous figure, Judith has served symbolic purposes for such diverse groups as Protestant partisans during the Wars of Religion and their Catholic counterparts, aristocratic women supporters of the Protestant Reformation, opponents of the French Revolution, Nazi mythmakers, filmmakers obsessed with gun-toting girls, freedom fighters and partisans in the former Yugoslavia, and many others. Judith's various guises illuminate central issues of Western consciousness - sex, death, violence, politics, beliefs, identity, psychology and perversion. In exploring the theme of Judith, an alternative history of Western attitudes emerges. This text asserts that Judith is not so much a killer as a liberating figure challenging our thinking about women and power and showing ways to break free from unconscious attitudes that imprison us.
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