num_pages: 440
description: 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.
language: English
title: Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form
titlecomplete: Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form
genres: History, Feminism, Mythology, Womens, Gender Studies, Philosophy, Art History, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 79
publisher: University of California Press