Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian West - Hardcover

Margaret Miles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0860121828 ISBN 13: 9780860121824

Publisher: Burns and Oates, 1992

Synopsis

Explores Christian attitudes about the naked female body from the fourth century to the present, examining the powerful influence of the Adam and Eve story, important works of art and literature, and male perspectives on the female body since early Christian times

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret R. Miles was Bussey Professor of Historical Theology at the Harvard University Divinity School. She is the author of Augustine on the Body, Desire and Delight, Image as Insight, and Practicing Christianity.

From Publishers Weekly:

Miles traces today's ideas of nakedness to the dawn of Christianity, showing how people learned to perceive the nude male figure as the embodiment of positive traits such as athletic ability and to contradictorily treat the nude female figure as the embodiment of wantonness. Illustrated.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Burns and Oates
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0860121828
• ISBN 13: 9780860121824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 254