Genesis & Anne Hutchinson

"Surely historians can do better than John Winthrop, who argued that as a midwife Hutchinson had insinuated herself into the hearts of women, leading all those potential Eves to seduce their husbands into heresy."

- "Anne Hutchinson, Sectarian Mysticism, and the Puritan Order" (487)

 Obviously, Anne Hutchinson's image has been misconstrued by many historians.  However, most notably is how Anne Hutchinson's beliefs directly contradicted the male dominated church, which thought that women should be silent and that they were cursed because that women were a source of original sin (as illustrated by the above quote).

After reading this, I couldn't help but think back to my Religion 121 class, where we discussed feminist interpretations of "The Fall" such as how Eve gave mankind the gift to discern good and evil. Before that point, God told Adam and Eve what was good and evil. By partaking of the fruit, they became “free”.

Anyways, I thought this illustrated Anne Hutchinson's displacement, and how she clearly was ahead of her time with her feminist views.