The Privilege of Being a Woman

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Alice von Hildebrand had seemingly contraceptive views of marriage and sexuality, taking her husband's that influenced Vatican II's inversion of the ends of marriage to an extreme. (Also, Alice was childless, or did she take a vow of continence like the Maritains?).

She also refers to the Blessed Virgin Mother as St. Joseph's fiancé, yet they had a true marriage.

Cited in Dressing with Dignity

ref:1.168-9 is on the feminine virtue of receptivity.

Women historically have been denigrated as lower than men or viewed as privileged. Dr. Alice von Hildebrand characterizes the difference between such views as based on whether man's vision is secularistic or steeped in the supernatural. She shows that feminism's attempts to gain equality with men by imitation of men is unnatural, foolish, destructive, and self-defeating. The Blessed Mother's role in the Incarnation points to the true privilege of being a woman. Both virginity and maternity meet in Mary who exhibits the feminine gifts of purity, receptivity to God's word, and life-giving nurturance at their highest.