Daughter Zion, Mother Zion: Gender, Space, and the Sacred in Ancient IsraelIn this innovative and importantwork Christl M. Maier argues thatthe way Israelites in the exilic andpost exilic periods spoke of Jerusalemas gendered space a "female"city helps us trace reactions to thecrisis of exile and the emergence of anew national religious identity. Takingup the Zion tradition in Isaiah ofJerusalem, Jeremiah, Hosea, Ezekiel,and Lamentations, Maier exploresmotifs of Jerusalem as mother,daughter, bride, whore, and injuredvictim.