Includes bibliographical references.

Aeschylus : gueens, goddesses, furies [selections from The Eumenides] -- The Old Testament -- The New Testament -- Clement of Alexandria and the Gnostics : women, sexuality, and marriage in orthodoxy and heterodoxy [selections from Stromateis 3 and from The Gospel of Mary] -- Jerome : the exaltation of Christian virginity [selections from Letter 22 ("To Eustochium") and from Against Jovinian] -- Augustine : sinfulness and sexuality [selections from "On marriage and concupiscence"] -- Thomas Aquinas : the man who should have known better [selections from the Summa theologica] -- Dame Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe : divine motherhood and human sisterhood [selections from The revelations of divine love and from The book of Margery Kempe] -- The Malleus maleficarum : the woman as witch [selections from the Malleus maleficarum] -- Luther and the Protestant reformation : from nun to parson's wife [selections from "The estate of marriage" and from Lectures on Genesis] -- John Milton : the Puritan transformation of marriage [selections from The doctrine and discipline of divorce] -- Ann Lee : the Messiah as woman [selections from various Shaker sources] -- Schleiermacher and Baader : individuality and androgyny [selections from Christmas Eve and from "The destructive influence of rational materialism on higher physics, poetry, and art"] -- Living in the Kingdom of God : John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida community [selections from Bible communism] -- Sarah Grimke : from abolition to suffrage [selections from Letters on the equality of the sexes and the condition of women] -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton and The woman's Bible [selections from The woman's Bible] -- Women and marriage, Vatican style : the Casti connubii [selections from the Casti connubii ("On Christian marriage")] -- The triumph of patriarchalism in the theology of Karl Barth [selections from Church dogmatics 3/4 ("The doctrine of creation")] -- Radical feminism, radical religion : Mary Daly [selections from "The women's movement : an Exodus community"].