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Article: Judith - sexual warrior: women and power in western culture.(Review) (book review)
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- Women and Language
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- September 22, 1999
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Judith - sexual warrior: women and power in western culture. Margarita Stocker, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, ISBN (hardback) 0 300 07365 8, 1998, 278pp.
The Old Testament story of the widow Judith -- the irresistible siren who lured her people's deadly enemy, Holofernes, to his death, beheading him to save Jerusalem -- is an enduring cultural myth in Western society. In this book the author explores the Western fascination with the image of Judith and the abundance of interpretations that have surrounded her at different times from the early Middle Ages to the present. The myth of Judith provides an important key to modern society's view of women ...