The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Author: Elizabeth Cady StantonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-01-23
ISBN: 048642491X
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Dover Publications
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Book Review: A fine legal mind, a discerning eye, and a fearless pen
Summary: 5 Stars
Susan B. Anthony said of Stanton, that if she had been a man, she might have been on the Supreme Court - which would have certainly helped us avoid much painful history in my opinion. These two women were the backbone of the movement that won women the vote.
And now for the bible, and Stanton's take on it. At the age of 19, I was challenged by a Protestant acquaintance to read the bible - he knew, that as a former Catholic, I probably was not as familiar with the 'good' book as he, and he was right, so I did. And found it appalling in most details and insulting toward women in the extreme (and this was before the feminist revival of the 60s!)
Although I had long left organized religion, I became convinced, reading it, that in addition to mind control and acquisition of the 'flock's' resources and obedience, organized religion has another, unspoken agenda: the control and distribution of the available females, to put it as nicely as possible.
'Feminist' religionists strive mightily to prove that religion honors and frees women, and have done much violence to the truth in that process. The bible - both old and new testaments - could be fairly described as a very long diatribe against women, and every right we have earned has been in opposition to biblical doctrine. (I believe the same thing can be said of Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, and all the patriarchal religions.) The bible's treatment of women provides very good grounds for the early church fathers' debates on whether women had souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton - besides being a right-on sister in pressing for the vote and the abolition of slavery - understood that the bible was one of the foundations of women's subservience and men's dominance and that to change that, the bible had to be dissected fearlessly and challenged. One writer here opined that she should have 'gone to the source' and not based her criticism on an English translation. Well whatever is said in that Hebrew/Greek/Aramaic ideal version (and I would not hold out much hope of it being the feminist document that might have defied her analysis) It was the common, English translation of the time which was used to deny women property, freedom, and equality in every field - and that is the one she very rightly critiqued.
Summary of The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective
Book-by-book examination of the Bible by pioneer in women's rights movement places events in their historical context, interprets passages as both allegory and fact, and compares them with myths of other cultures. In the tradition of radical individualism, Stanton's attack on religious orthodoxy represents a political treatise rather than a scholarly work.
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