Bible Review

Leonard Swidler, Biblical Affirmations of Women (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1979).

Phyllis Bird, “Images of Women in the Old Testament,” in Religion and Sexism, ed. R.R. Ruether (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974), pp. 41–88.

See Bass, “Women’s Studies,” p. 11.

Wagner, “Introduction,” Woman, Church and State, p. xxxviii.

Stanton, The Woman’s Bible, p. 214.

Part I, on “Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy,” was originally published in 1895 and part II on “Judges, Kings, the Prophets, and Apostles,” in 1898. It has been reprinted by the Coalition Task Force on Women and Religion (Seattle, Washington, 1974) and by Polygon Books (Edinburgh, 1985). Quotations are from the 1974 reprinting which contains an appendix with several letters to Stanton and a comment by Stanton herself.

Sally R. Wagner, “Introduction” to Gage, Woman, Church and State, p. xxx.

Gage, Woman, Church and State, p. 243. Gage defines “civilization” as “a recognition of the rights of others at every point of contact.”

Matilda Joslyn Gage, Woman, Church and State: The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex (Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1980).