"bordo's Sharp Reading Of Boleyniana And Her Clear Affection For This Proud, Unusual Woman Make This An Entertaining, Provocative Read."--boston Globepart Biography, Part Cultural History, The Creation Of Anne Boleyn Is A Reconstruction Of Boleyn's Life And An Illuminating Look At Her Very Active Afterlife In The Popular Imagination. With Recent Novels, Movies, And Television Shows, Anne Has Been Having A Twenty-first-century Moment, But Bordo Shows How Many Generations Of Polemicists, Biographers, Novelists, And Filmmakers Have Imagined And Reimagined Her: Whore, Martyr, Cautionary Tale, Proto-"mean Girl," Feminist Icon, And Everything In Between. Drawing On Scholarship And Razor-sharp Analysis, Bordo Probes The Complexities Of One Of History's Most Intriguing Women, Teasing Out What We Actually Know About Anne Boleyn And What We Think We Know About Her."riveting . . . Bordo's Eloquent Study Not Only Recovers Anne Boleyn For Our Times But Also Demonstrates The Ways In Which Legends Grow Out Of The Faintest Wisps Of Historical Fact." --book Page"engrossing . . . Ms. Bordo Offers A Fascinating Discussion."--new York Times