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This startling study of early Christian attitudes toward sexuality
begins with an account of the different stances adopted by the
Church-from the Early Fathers' view that sex and the female body
were irredeemably unholy, to Augustine's contention that sex was
natural, but lust was evil. While the Church Fathers struggled to
reach consistent theoretical conclusions, the underlying conflation
of 'women' with 'sex' meant that patristic statements on chastity,
virginity and marriage effectively read as ecclesiastical law
governing women's conduct. Joyce Salisbury explains the
relationship between Church doctrine and the position of women by
placing these official views alongside an ascetic tradition which
resisted the constraints imposed by sexual intercourse. Through an
examination of texts of female and popular authorship, and the
extraordinary lives of seven women saints-including the
transvestites Castissima and Pelagia-she presents a markedly
different picture of sexual and social roles. For many of these
women, celibacy became a form of emancipation. Church Fathers,
Independent Virgins bears witness to the entrenched power of the
Church to oppress, the continuing power of women to overcome, and
the enduring effects of medieval sexual attitudes.
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