| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Linda B. Hall. Mary, Mother and Warrior: The Virgin in Spain and the Americas. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 366. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.95.

The ubiquitous presence of Mary, virgin and mother, in the cultures of the Hispanic world has long been a source of wide-ranging reactions, from the wonder and reverence of traditional Catholicism to the ironic dismissiveness of liberal Protestantism, from the bewildered curiosity of modern secularism to the animosity of militant feminism. Linda B. Hall wisely treads a middle path between these perspectives, but her book is by no means a dispassionate account. The author acknowledges her Protestant upbringing and the consequent "meek and mild" notion of the Virgin that was transmitted to her; yet she emphasizes that throughout the Hispanic world Mary is more often seen as an "active, effective, legitimizing" force (p. 16), whose perceived power functions as a dynamic source of empowerment to her devotees, both male and female.

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