Eve: A Biography is the history of Everywoman. Her brief
adventure in the Book of Genesis is where the Western idea of woman
began, and three thousand years after Eve offered Adam the
forbidden fruit, everyone still knows that losing Paradise was
Eve's fault.
Pamela Norris traces the evolution of Eve's bad reputation,
drawing on a rich and diverse tradition of storytelling that
embraces myth, folk tale and popular romance, and puts the
spotlight firmly on women and their sexuality. From Dinah and
Delilah, Pandora and Psyche, to the snaky Lamias and Liliths who
haunted nineteenth-century painting and literature, centuries of
disobedient women have been linked with Eve, the original bad girl,
providing ample ammunition for male fears and fantasies. But Eve's
story has also been retold by women, who have found ingenious and
often subversive ways to free her from her disreputable past.
Stimulating, intriguing and wittily erudite, Eve: A Biography is
the entrancing tale of a folk maiden who metamorphoses into a vamp,
a mermaid, a bluestocking, a witch, a virgin trapped inside the
walls of a fertile garden and finally, perhaps, into a thoroughly
modern woman who chews the apple of knowledge with gusto and
wouldn't dream of offering Adam a bite.
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