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Were these young women “subject” to those “divine powers that be,” or were they, as is more likely, subject to a hierarchical system of patriarchal power?
Let us rejoice that we are subject to the divine “powers that be.”
—Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
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Ingham, A.M. (2010). The Female Subject. In: Women and Spirituality in the Writing of More, Wollstonecraft, Stanton, and Eddy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230109940_2
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