Eve: A Biography

In this text, the author aims to present a cultural biography of the first woman. Her brief adventure in the book of Genesis is where the Western idea of woman began. The text traces the evolution of Eve’s bad reputation, drawing on myth, folk tale and popular romance, and puts the spotlight firmly on women and their sexuality. Centuries of disobedient women have been linked with Eve, the original bad girl, and the author offers a tale of a folk maiden who metamorphoses into a vamp, a mermaid, a witch or a virgin, all trapped inside the walls of a fertile garden, and finally, perhaps, into a thoroughly modern woman.