A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing 2008
DOI: 10.1002/9780470693490.ch18
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“…57 It seems implausible, for example, to suppose seventeenthcentury women believed they could 'circumvent traditional ideas about female inferiority' by simply performing masculinity. 58 On the contrary, Quaker women seem to have mirrored some gendered conventions in order to rupture others. Most did this not to elevate individual personality but to present their embodied activities, like those of their male counterparts, as the 'signs and wonders' Scripture extolled as the mark of true prophecy.…”
Section: Scenario Ii: the Prophetic Signmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…57 It seems implausible, for example, to suppose seventeenthcentury women believed they could 'circumvent traditional ideas about female inferiority' by simply performing masculinity. 58 On the contrary, Quaker women seem to have mirrored some gendered conventions in order to rupture others. Most did this not to elevate individual personality but to present their embodied activities, like those of their male counterparts, as the 'signs and wonders' Scripture extolled as the mark of true prophecy.…”
Section: Scenario Ii: the Prophetic Signmentioning
confidence: 99%