Abstract
Abstract While enjoining women to ‘become male’ seems, at this historical distance, a supreme example of bad faith, Elizabeth Castelli in this excerpt directs us to its subversive possibilities, especially when deployed by early Christian women. The lives of early Christian women, she says, were shaped by ‘paradoxical ideological conditions’. Christianity offered new freedoms, but women had access to holiness ‘only through the manipulation of conventional gender categories’. Castelli analyses here an astonishing document, the martyr diary of Perpetua. This account of the imprisonment of a group of North African Christians.
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