nt in favor of equality is strong and based on her recognition that patriarchy disadvantaged women in all ways and in all spheres. Linking the economic disenfranchisement and subjugation of women to their further victimization at the hands of male seducers, drunkards, and abusers, Anthony sees womenÆs ôlack of purityö as a direct consequence of menÆs uncontrolled and unbridled behavior. Such behavior, she argued, lead women to abandon children, accept prostitution, remain in abusive marriages where they are given sexually transmitted diseases by their husbands, and otherwise suffer multiple forms of abuse and degradation. All of this was due, as she argued, to the maintenance of laws and customs that favored men over women and called for womenÆs continued dependence.
However, while this rhetoric calls for equality, Anthony (8) returns to the image of Mary, Mother of Christ, as the ôtrue model of womanhood and motherhood.ö Thus suggests that even while rejecting the ôidealö image of the ôproperÆ woman as a wif
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