Monuments and Maidens

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.

Among Marina Warner's books are From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (1995), Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1983), and Joan of Arc (California, 1999).

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD

Part One: The Female Presence Today
1 The Monument (New York)
2 The Street (Paris)
3 The Front Page (London)

Part Two: The Figure in Myth
4 Engendered Images
5 The Bed of Odysseus
6 The Aegis of Athena
7 The Goddess of Success
8 The Sword of Justice
9 Lady Wisdom

Part Three: The Body in Allegory
10 The Making of Pandora
11 The Sieve of Tuccia
12 The Slipped Chiton
13 Nuda Veritas

Epilogue
The Eyes of Tiresias

ABBREVIATIONS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES
INDEX