Freire reminds us, “the oppressed find in the oppressor their model of ‘manhood.’ ”16 Once Hagar conceived, she looked “with contempt” on her mistress Sarai. The Hebrew expression connotes that Sarai became a “lighter weight.” Yet when most of us read this passage, we usually accuse Hagar of putting on airs, of not knowing her place, of being subversive. Many biblical interpreters have portrayed Hagar as sassy or haughty. Once she was with child, and Sarai was not, we assume Hagar rubbed Sarai’s