'The Story of Eve' is the story of Everywoman; her brief history in Genesis is where the Western idea of woman began.
Three thousand years after the myth was first recorded, women are still grappling with ideas about female sexuality, intellectual inferiority and subordinate domestic status and engendered by the ancient source. 'The Story of Eve' traces Eve's evolution, exposes the flimsiness of the case against her and explores some of the beautiful, bizarre and extraordinary fantasies that the idea of Eve has conjured up in the human imagination. This is a book with resonance for every woman brought up in the Western cultural tradition.
