LEADER 03452nam 22007454a 450 001 9910454472003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-12963-5 010 $a1-282-93544-5 010 $a9786612935442 010 $a9786612129636 010 $a1-4008-2708-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400827084 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756287 035 $a(EBL)445489 035 $a(OCoLC)362719571 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000273226 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11206614 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273226 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10313913 035 $a(PQKB)10560666 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445489 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36337 035 $a(DE-B1597)446325 035 $a(OCoLC)979578336 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400827084 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4968570 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445489 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284062 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL293544 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4968570 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL212963 035 $a(OCoLC)1027195178 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756287 100 $a20050406d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWomen at the beginning$b[electronic resource] $eorigin myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary /$fPatrick J. Geary 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (117 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-17146-7 311 $a0-691-12409-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [79]-100) and index. 327 $a1. Women and origins in antiquity and the early Middle ages -- 2. Writing women out : amazons and barbarians -- 3. A tale of two Judiths -- 4. Writing women in : sacred genealogy and gender -- 5. Women at the end 330 $aIn these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes the often marginal role women played in origin legends from antiquity until the twelfth century. Not confining himself to one religious tradition or region, he probes the tensions between women in biblical, classical, and medieval myths (such as Eve, Mary, Amazons, princesses, and countesses), and actual women in ancient and medieval societies. Using these legends as a lens through which to study patriarchal societies, Geary chooses moments and texts that illustrate how ancient authors (all of whom were male) confronted the place of women in their society. Unlike other books on the subject, Women at the Beginning attempts to understand not only the place of women in these legends, but also the ideologies of the men who wrote about them. The book concludes that the authors of these stories were themselves struggling with ambivalence about women in their own worlds and that this struggle manifested itself in their writings. 606 $aWomen$xMythology 606 $aBeginning$xMythology 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen$xMythology. 615 0$aBeginning$xMythology. 676 $a201/.3/082 686 $a71.31$2bcl 700 $aGeary$b Patrick J.$f1948-$0211465 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454472003321 996 $aWomen at the beginning$92478078 997 $aUNINA