Marina Warner explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female form, and examines the tension between women's historic and symbolic roles. Drawing on the evidence of public art, especially sculpture, and painting, poetry, and classical mythology, she ranges over the allegorical presence of the woman in the Western tradition with a sharply observant eye and a piquant and engaging style.
- ISBN10 0520227336
- ISBN13 9780520227330
- Publish Date 25 January 2022 (first published 1 January 1985)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 7 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 440
- Language English