Posts Tagged ‘Mary Magdalene’
Poetry Friday: “Canticle of the Penitent Magdalene”
February 1, 2019
Who was Mary Magdalene? Tradition for centuries presented her to us as a penitent woman, kneeling woman, woman once possessed by demons, woman with a past. As prostitute-turned-saint, she is a figure of femaleness easily fetishized by the male gaze. And yet this tradition doesn’t have its roots in the earliest writings and traditions of…
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