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An exploration of the power of visual and verbal representations of female nakedness throughout Western Christian history. Margaret Miles looks at how men have treated women's bodies - in their actions, art and writings, and why, in Christian history, naked female bodies have symbolized shame.
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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.
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- PublisherBurns & Oates Ltd
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0860121828
- ISBN 13 9780860121824
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages254
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