WHEN NEW FIREFIGHTERS WERE HIRED in New York in the months following September 11, out of six hundred recruits, only one was a woman. (1) The sculpture of Linda Stein imagines a corrective to the peculiar masculinization of protection that resulted from the attacks on the World Trade Center. Her larger-than-life forms resemble armor but they are made of materials that tell other stories than those of war. She calls them Knights (see cover; figs. 1-3), hailing back to an era of ritualized relations between protectors and those they championed. In Stein's work, however, the bodies under the shields are decidedly female. Of course, a good many medieval and Renaissance literary ...

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