“The Lady Vanishes: Dilemmas of Feminist Historians in the Age of ‘Theory'”
1996
Elizabeth Clark noted points of opposition and similarities among post-structuralist literary theorists, historians, and feminists. Her own field of early Christian literature examining stories of 4th- and 5th-century women ascetics can show the useful approaches that theory can suggest for the study of early Christian women’s history. While male ascetics in most early Christian stories left culture for nature, the women’s stories represented their subjects as gradually intensifying their renunciations, not a breaking totally with the world of civilization.
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