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Article: JUDITH, SEXUAL WARRIOR: WOMEN AND POWER IN WESTERN CULTURE.(Review)
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- Theological Studies
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- March 1, 2000
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JUDITH, SEXUAL WARRIOR: WOMEN AND POWER IN WESTERN CULTURE. By Margarita Stocker. New Haven: Yale University, 1998. Pp. viii 278 + 45 illustrations. $30.
The Hebrew Scripture story of the pious widow, Judith, who performs an act of faith and courage to save God's people, has had an extraordinary legacy beyond the boundaries of religious narrative. Stocker has attempted to trace and to interpret the topos of Judith as one of what the author identifies as the "enduring cultural myth[s] in Western society" in some throughgoing analyses of literary, artistic, cinematic and popular culture sources. The primary motif/guise by which she identifies Judith is as a ...