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above divisiveness and difficulty in co‐existing as a group of healers. My portrayal of these
women disciples was intended as “a challenge to the universality of women’s condition and a
constant reminder of the many differences amongst women.” Maria Tamboukou, “Narratives
from within: an Arendtian approach to life histories and the writing of history,” Journal of
Educational Administration and History 42, No. 2 (May 2010): 129.
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Sobat, The Book of Mary, 148.
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Katherine Anne Tucker. “Abominations of the Female Sex: Five Case Studies of Late Nineteenth
Century Criminal Women,” (Lancashire: University of Central Lancashire, 2013): 47.
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“’To step outside of patriarchal thought’… means developing intellectual courage, the courage
to stand alone, the courage to reach farther than our grasp, the courage to risk failure. Perhaps
the greatest challenge to thinking women is the challenge to move from the desire for safety and
approval to the most ‘unfeminine’ quality of all‐ that of intellectual arrogance and the supreme
hubris which asserts to itself the right to reorder the world. The hubris of godmakers, the hubris
of the male system builders.” Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy, 228.
46
Sobat, The Book of Mary, 241.
47
Warner, Alone of All Her Sex, 208. Mary’s assumption was said to have taken place in Ephesus
which is also the presumed by some to be the site of her final dwelling and tomb.
48
Sobat, The Book of Mary, 249.
49
Maria Tamboukou, “Narratives from within: an Arendtian approach to life histories and the
writing of history,” 127.
50
Cheryl Glenn. “Truth, Lies, and Method: Revisiting Feminist Historiography.” College English
62, No. 3 (January 2000): 388‐389.
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Liz Stanley continues, “knowledge is indeed contingent, depends upon, drives from, a
particular and socially located viewpoint. This approach may not constitute ‘the death of the
author’ in postmodernist terms, but it does put her in her proper place, as one particular, albeit
privileged, voice among other voices.” Liz Stanley, The Auto/biographical I: The Theory and
Practice of Feminist Auto/biography, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995): 250‐251.
52
Benton, “Towards a Poetics of Literary Biography,” 85.
53
Sobat, The Book of Mary, 250.
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