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Nashville : Thomas Nelson, c2012. |
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| ISBN: |
9781595553676 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1595553673 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Call number: |
277.3083 EVA |
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| Physical description: |
xxvi, 321 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
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Women -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Women -- Biblical teaching.
Christian women -- Religious life.
Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Sex role -- Biblical teaching.
Evans, Rachel Held, 1981-
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| Note: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Summary note: |
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. |
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| Contents note: |
October: gentleness, girl gone mild -- November: domesticity, Martha and me -- 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: charity, eat more guinea pig -- August: silence, I am woman, hear me no more -- September: grace, days of awe. |
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