S9 Ep968: The Making of Biblical Womanhood: Dr. Beth Allison Barr
Theology in the Raw
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Is It a Straight Linear Line of Mesogony?
In the mediaeval world, what i talk about with my students is that there was actually a spiritual loophole for women that went away with the reformation. And so by, you know, they are able to gain that spiritual authority by forsaking marriage. But in the early modern world, where we have a hardening of laws about women and marriage and property, you'n think about jane austen,. It's just think about you. She's always complaining about women who aren't married. A you kow they they have no poperty. They have no life. There's nothing that they can do," she says.
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