  In short, these Quaker writers continue to perpetuate a male-biased tradition in Western religion according to which femaleness is symbolically coded as inferior, imperfect, and “less divine” than maleness (cf. Tuana 1993). They implicitly accept the prejudices of their misogynist critics, such as Joshuah Miller and John Knox, who maintain that women are physically weak and mentally feeble by nature.