Eve: A Biography
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (637 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814758150 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 496 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Eve: A biograpy" according to Mrs. Susan Guadarrama. It was almost like new, only the pages were a little yellowed. I am still very satisfied with it. Thank you. "a wide-ranging, wonderful book" according to bookworm. As I read this book I kept alternating between being fascinated and appalled. I would ask myself, "Were men really that afraid of women?" Ms. Norris does a wonderful job of tracing through how the story of Eve has been used to create and justify various attitudes toward women in Hebrew and Christian societies with a side trip to look at the Greeks and how they became part of the mix. In many ways it is even more interesting to see what happened as women got a. A Customer said Witty and smart history of "the world's first woman". Eve is a wonderful book. I expected it to be informative but dry, and instead it was lively and funny and entertaining. Norris offers an eclectic history of not just the figure of Eve, but many of her sisters in crime--Pandora, Delilah, Lilith--and provides a bracing account of these good and bad sisters and mothers through the ages. It's also a gorgeous book, with great color and b+w illustrations throughout.It's tops on my holiday gift list, especially for
The second half of the book voices a particularly strong argument. Ancient rabbis considered Eve's primary role to be the "mother of all living" and referred to her sin as an example of what can happen to women who stray from their childbearing duties. Moving from Scripture to secular literature, she patiently and brilliantly traces the slow and limited evolution of Eve's story into a defense of "the need to challenge boundaries, to make the imaginative leap, however difficult, unpredictable and even dangerous, into a new phase of existence." --Michael Joseph Gross. In "Fantasies of Eve," Norris considers Eve's literary incarnations in the works of Milton, Hawthorne, and Ursula K. Le Guin, among others. Eve: A Biogra
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.. Eve: A Biography is the history of Everywoman. 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. 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