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.
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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| Language: | English |
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Nashville :
Thomas Nelson,
[2012]
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| Physical Description: | xxvi, 321 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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.