Ooops! Perhaps I really meant that the style of female messiahs does tend to
differ from that of the male variety (power-sharing etc)
Lesley
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of Pat
Sent: 25 September 1997 00:14
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Subject: Re: [*FSFFU*] Messiahs (was Wonder Woman)
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Lesley Hall wrote:
> But I can't think of many messiah-novels in which the messiah is female
(it's
> only one story in the aforementioned), even by women (maybe Parable of the
> Sower): perhaps messianism as such is not something women aspire to? or
> actually find a rather dubious proposition. (Thinking of the forces male
> messiahs unleash in fiction and fact)
Suzette Haden Elgin's STAR-ANGERED, STAR-ANCHORED has a female
Messiah.>
Patricia (Pat) Mathews
mathews@unm.edu
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