SMFS promotes the study of the Patristic Age, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern era from the perspective of gender studies, women's studies, and feminist studies. It actively promotes and supports interdisciplinary exchanges at all levels of higher education across the world. Members represent every continent and every academic discipline within the arts & humanities.
02/21/2013
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"The clock becomes the measure of one's progress through life, a tyrant to whom submission results in sinful alienation from one's own being. To be obsessed with time, with measuring one's accomplishments over time, is a mark of the human consciousness outside of Eden. Now the constant reminders of appointments and deadlines, like the memory of those who have died but remain very much alive in the affections, make individuals forget themselves. Remembering - in the mundane sense - has become an institutionalized practice that can lead to the death, as one used to say, of the soul. Making up for lost time, buying time, and having something to show for one's time, becomes a 'disease', a cultural fiction mistaken for reality, a substitute for selfhood, a crippling illusion, and a greedy tyrant."Richard K. Fenn, The Persistence of Purgatory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 14.