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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 ; cover photo by Maki Garcia Evans. |
| Authors: | Evans, Rachel Held, 1981- |
| Call number: | 277.3083 EVA |
| Publisher: | Nashville : Thomas Nelson, c2012. |
| Publication date: | c2012. |
| Subject: |
Women -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Women -- Biblical teaching. Christian women -- Religious life. Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Sex role -- Biblical teaching. Evans, Rachel Held, 1981- |
| Title: | 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 ; cover photo by Maki Garcia Evans. |
| Physical description: | xxvi, 321 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781595553676 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1595553673 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| LCCN: | 2012014499 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1414137 |
| Bib No.: | 1414137 |
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