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Women at the Beginning - Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary (Paperback)
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Women at the Beginning - Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary (Paperback)
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In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the
way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes
the often marginal role women played in origin legends from
antiquity until the twelfth century. Not confining himself to one
religious tradition or region, he probes the tensions between women
in biblical, classical, and medieval myths (such as Eve, Mary,
Amazons, princesses, and countesses), and actual women in ancient
and medieval societies. Using these legends as a lens through which
to study patriarchal societies, Geary chooses moments and texts
that illustrate how ancient authors (all of whom were male)
confronted the place of women in their society. Unlike other books
on the subject, Women at the Beginning attempts to understand not
only the place of women in these legends, but also the ideologies
of the men who wrote about them. The book concludes that the
authors of these stories were themselves struggling with
ambivalence about women in their own worlds and that this struggle
manifested itself in their writings.
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