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Wishing for God’s Plan: Mary’s fiat in Luke 1:38
In the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., hangs van Eyck’s The Annunciation, where a rainbow-winged Gabriel salutes Mary, blue-draped, arms open in prayer. Gabriel proclaims, Ave gratia...
A Wilder Feminism
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography by laura ingalls wilder edited by pamela smith hill south dakota historical society, 472 pages, $39.95 The South Dakota Historical Society released Pioneer Girl:...
The Ancients on Abortion
Teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy last semester, I hopedto cruise through the Purgatorio to make sure we completed the Paradisoby semester’s end. But my students wouldn’t let me skip canto...
Diapers and Diplomas
Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower by mary ann mason, nicholas h. wolfinger, and marc goulden rutgers, 188 pages, $25.95 n When colleagues at academic...
