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Our Bodies, Our Statues
Mullarkey, Maureen | January 11, 1986 issue

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The article presents information on the book "Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form," by Marina Warner. This is a book that one can take out for a beer. At its best, it is wry, witty, opinionated and gossipy. The purpose of Monuments & Maidens is to examine how women's identity has been defined, since classical times, by symbolic uses of the female form. The book is an intricately contrived, extravagantly documented tour de force which is more convincing in its asides than in its axioms and lines of argument. In the rare moments when she forgoes the postures of the don for the prerogatives of the essayist, Warner is a gifted observer capable of flavorful irony and grace. She is also an inspired scavenger.

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MONUMENTS & Maidens (Book); WARNER, Marina; WOMEN; SYMBOLISM; AXIOMS; FEMALES
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