Her approach to sex reflects a broader agenda that underlines all her work; to provide a female perspective which could be shared and enhanced by the women she lived, worked, prayed and learned alongside. She was putting the focus onto women’s experience – something few of her contemporaries did. She even goes so far as to say that, in relation to the act of creation, women are superior to men: ‘Women may be made from man, but no man can be made without a woman.’55 Whether through medicine, theological texts, images or music, Hildegard was a woman writing for other women.
