When women were priests
Subtitle: women's leadership in the early church and the scandal of their subordination in the rise of Christianity
By: Karen Jo Torjesen.
Edition: 1st HarperCollins pbk. ed.
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Published: 1995
Place of publication: [San Francisco]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Women in Christianity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.; Women clergy -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Preachers, prophets and patrons; title: Household management and women's authority; title: Patronage and women's power; title: Public women, private virtues; title: A woman's honor is her shame; title: When the church goes public; title: The penetrator and the penetrated; title: Sin is a sexually communicable disease; title: What iif God had breasts.