W.R. Gingell’s Reviews > Christian Women in the Patristic World: Their Influence, Authority, and Legacy in the Second through Fifth Centuries > Status Update
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from the chapter on Thecla:
"...women, including Christian women, might choose conservative expressions of modesty as they demonstrate their agency....This interpretation of women's agency is an important corrective to earlier scholarship's thesis that agency is synonymous with autonomy and can only be seen in countercultural moves and poses of resistance" (1/2)
— Jan 05, 2026 11:17PM
"...women, including Christian women, might choose conservative expressions of modesty as they demonstrate their agency....This interpretation of women's agency is an important corrective to earlier scholarship's thesis that agency is synonymous with autonomy and can only be seen in countercultural moves and poses of resistance" (1/2)
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"....In part, this interpretation calls into question the equation of authenticity with resistance to the status quo...instead, individuals are constantly deciding how to manage and express competing and even at times contradictory cultural values."
— Jan 05, 2026 11:17PM
"....In part, this interpretation calls into question the equation of authenticity with resistance to the status quo...instead, individuals are constantly deciding how to manage and express competing and even at times contradictory cultural values."
