Was Mary a Template for Today's Feminism?

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Petru Popescu

Provocative novelist known for Girl Mary, Almost Adam, The Last Disident

Posted: November 4, 2009 11:26 AM

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.. In her real life, the historic Mary was a rebel. And in the minds of women, Mary was always an image of strength. An attentive rereading of the gospels can establish with equal certainness that she was clever, strong-minded, a survivor, a leader, a woman capable to weather hardship, to withhold her dignity in ambiguous and dangerous situations (pregnancy out of wedlock, to quote the most obvious), and to maneuver complex situations, including the announcement by the angel, in her own favor.

She was a super-woman. Against the notion that super-womanhood is defined by kindliness, sweetness, motherliness, gentleness, and other "soft" qualitiesonly, I shall claim that super-womanhood is resilient, un-frightened, hopeful, optimistic, independent-minded, and filled with healthy curiosity. All attributes which we find in the women of today, in their most autonomous stances, in their willingness to do without men rather than be the annex of men, and in their need for motherhood, but not for the bonds of marriage unless that marriage is for equal partners.....

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