Article: Judith: Sexual Warrior. Women and Power in Western Culture.(Review)

Margarita Stocker, Judith: Sexual Warrior. Women and Power in Western Culture

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. 36 pls. + ix + 278 pp. $30. ISBN: 0-300-07365-8.

Monographic volumes on female heroines have become something of a genre, providing often insightful but always problematic overviews of legendary women and their longue duree history in Western culture. Margarita Stocker's extensive study of the Judith story and its multiple avatars from the Middle Ages until the present day adds a useful cornerstone to the growing bibliography regarding (in) famous female figures in the literature and art of the West. Marina Warner's Alone of ...

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