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
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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
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-319) and index
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non fiction
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A year of Biblical womanhood
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bibliography
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779873116
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Rachel Held Evans
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how a liberated woman found herself sitting on her roof, covering her head, and calling her husband "master"?
Summary
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
Table Of Contents
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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