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Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian West
by Miles, Margaret R
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0807013064
- ISBN 13
- 9780807013069
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About This Item
Boston: Beacon Press, 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ has light shelf wear. ; Contents: Religious practices of nakedness (Christian baptism in the fourth century: the conversion of the body; "Becoming male": women martyrs and ascetics). Representations of female nakedness (Adam and Eve, before and after; the female body as figure; "carnal abominations": the female body as grotesque; nakedness, gender, and religious meaning). Appendix: the power of representation - productive or repressive? Notes, bibliography, index. 9.75" tall; 254 pages.
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- Bookseller
- Cat's Cradle Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4260068
- Title
- Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian West
- Author
- Miles, Margaret R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0807013064
- ISBN 13
- 9780807013069
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- SEX, WOMEN, RELIGION, CHRISTIAN, NUDITY, NAKEDNESS, HISTORY, WOMEN
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