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"Yet, the male prerogative of priestly roles was, as late as the third century, a debated issue across Christian groups." page 47
"Wayne Meeks has argued persuasively that in Christian communities an "intensified sense of role oppositions" ironically resulted from a new flexibility in social roles. When people perceived this flexibility as a lack of social order, anxiety and a reaction of misogyny often resulted, motivating renewed attention to defining opposite and complementary roles and dress for women and men." page 49
" "Becoming male" could also be very practical for a Christian woman: Thecla cut her hair and put on men's clothing in order to be able to travel with more freedom and to avoid rape. Pelagia "dressed as a man and secretly went off" to join a monastery, where she "passed" as a male eunuch for the rest of her life, to be discovered only at her death." page 55
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