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Feminist theory --- Feminist criticism

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This work explores a second-century text, the Protevangilium Iacobi, and, by examining current scholarship on the subject, assesses the way it has influenced the Christian perception of women and the ordering of their lives through the centuries down to the present day. It demonstrates how Mary, as she is presented in this text with extreme and unreal emphasis on her purity, has been held up as an unattainable model for all Christian women and takes as a case study the lives of contemplative women in the Roman Catholich church, showing how the image of Mary impossibly secluded in the temple has been partly responsible for their enclosure. By exploring the way female biological processes have been allowed to intrude on the sacred, tracting this influence from the Old Testament, through this text and its connection with Mary to the present day, it argues that this has been a significant factor in the denial of presbyteral ordination to women in some Christian churches. One of the original features of this work is the tracing of art work depicting scenes from the text across the Christian world, thus demonstrating the breadth of its influence, right down to New Age writings today.

Women in Christianity. --- Feminist criticism. --- Mary, --- Protevangelium Jacobi.

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Sex in literature --- Rome in literature --- Classical literature --- Feminist criticism

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Feminism --- Europe --- History --- Feminist theory --- Feminist criticism --- Women --- Social conditions --- Politics and government --- Feminist theory - Europe - History. --- Feminist criticism - Europe - History.