247:. The course she taught was entitled simply "Women and Religion" which enabled her to address a range of religious traditions that varied over the years, but always from the same starting points: discerning an ambivalent relationship between women and religion, the balance of tensions created within religious institutions by the new challenges presented by women's emancipation, and finally the preconception of a specific link between female sexuality and the prohibition on priesthood. It is apparent that there were some at the university who viewed Graesslé's approach with disfavour.
277:"Lorsqu’en 2003, dernière année de ma modérature, en un beau dimanche d’octobre, nous avons dévoilé le nom de Marie Dentière devant le Mur des Réformateurs à Genève, c’était une victoire sur l’oubli, le mépris, l’envie aussi ! Cette grande lettrée du XVIe siècle, au parcours étonnant et au caractère bien trempé, dont la réputation avait été au mieux négligée, au pire salie par des générations entières, était enfin réhabilitée. Une universitaire américaine vient même de publier son œuvre en anglais."
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in Geneva, it was a victory over amnesia, contempt and envy! This great literary scholar of the sixteenth century, with her astonishing career and hardened character, whose reputation had been at best neglected and at worst traduced, was at last rehabilitated. An
American university has even just
262:. I was determined to separate myself from this idea of the maternal woman, which was still embedded in the collective spirit. I was there to take a lead, support, encourage and indeed admonish all these ministers. Be assured that this task has not always been so simple".
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followed in 1988. She was supervised for her dissertation by
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