 While man’s life, akin to a Promethean seeker and bringer of light, involves creation and a kind of destruction that respects no form, woman’s life is, in keeping with her nature, embedded in the world of matter and becoming; her destiny forms her as life’s immediate hold on her asserts its power. Man, on the other hand, is, in keeping with his nature, intractable to the processes of life (1912: 115). Contra the intellectuality of past periods that consistently excluded women from producing culture (1912: 122), and in spite of seeming to position women beyond the cultural by aligning them with the world of nature, matter, and becoming, Susman reclaims for women a life of the mind of their own, one that does not submit to and that is not assimilated by the male world. “In a culture built by men but realized and maintained by women” (1912: 125), the destiny of women cannot be to submit “as slave where she is supposed to be helping mother” (1912: 124). For, in a world where women are subject to men, they cannot realize the mission of their particular calling (1912: 128).