Readings in Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition by Barbara J. MacHaffie


Readings in Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition
Title : Readings in Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition
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ISBN : 0800625757
ISBN-10 : 9780800625757
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 256
Publication : First published January 5, 1992

A unique anthology. Barbara MacHaffie has collected into one volume 74 of the most important Christian documents and passages by and about women. Ranging from Genesis to now, these primary sources put the reader directly in touch with the most significant and influential events, personalities and issues of women's religious history. Often lamentably and sometimes gloriously, these voices-ancient and modern, female and male, Roman Catholic and Protestant, feminist and patriarchal-bear decisively on women's identities today.

Readings in Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition Reviews

  • Rachel B

    2.5 stars

    This book gathers together excerpts from various documents having to do with women in the history of Christianity. Some are conservative, some liberal.

    The introductions, written by MacHaffie, also seemed to vary in their bias, which dragged my rating down a bit.

    This book was published in 1992, and the most recent document came from 1985, so it is lacking in more current issues, but it serves the historical purpose well enough.

  • Cat.

    This is a very basic overview of the situation women have found themselves in over the centuries in relation to the Church. Mostly it's not a pretty picture. While there was some shifting at various times, at any given time there were really very few options open to women.

    I was interested to find out about the change in how women were viewed prior to the 1800s (woman as Eve, i.e. the center of sin) as opposed to the evolution of their role in Victorian times (woman as the civilizer of the world). What a choice!

    Every time I read something like this, I am struck not only by how far women have come, but by how quickly it could all slip away again.