A year of Biblical womanhood : how a liberated woman found herself sitting on her roof, covering her head, and calling her husband "master" / Rachel Held Evans.

Contents October: gentleness, girl gone mild -- November: domesticity, Martha, Martha -- December: obedience, my husband, my master -- January: valor, will the real Proverbs 31 woman please stand up? -- February: beauty, my breasts are like towers -- March: modesty, hula-hooping with the Amish -- April: purity, the worst time of the month to go camping -- May: fertility, quivers full of arrows and sippy cups -- June: submission, a disposition to yield -- July: justice, eat more guinea pig -- August: silence, I am woman, hear me no more -- September: grace, days of awe.
Abstract The author spends a year exploring traditional Biblical roles for women, including such activities as interviewing a polygamist's wife, visiting an Amish school, abstaining from gossip, and corresponding with an Orthodox Jewish woman.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 311-319) and index.
Genre/formMemoirs.
Genre/formAutobiographies.
Genre/formAutobiographies.
Genre/formAutobiographies.
LCCN 2012014499
ISBN9781595553676 (alk. paper)
ISBN1595553673 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks BT704 .E925 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold