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What happens when women challenge the Bible verses used to keep them beneath men?
In The Woman's Bible, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a committee of women examine passages that speak of women—or are used against them. Their short comments question readings that support women's inequality. For Stanton, this is no distant debate: ministers and legislators use scripture to resist demands for women's rights, making religious interpretation a practical barrier to change.
The commentary moves from the creation stories in Genesis to the letters of Paul and those attributed to him. Eve, Sarah, Hagar and Ruth receive close attention, alongside laws and teachings about women's place. Sharp, funny and scholarly by turns, these readings ask who gets to interpret a sacred text, and whose interests those interpretations serve.
What you’ll discover
- Creation read side by side Explore why Stanton finds the differences between the two Genesis accounts so important.
- Eve beyond the blame Encounter a reading that treats Eve's curiosity differently from traditions that stress her guilt.
- Women brought into view Pause with Sarah, Hagar, Deborah and Ruth as the commentators give them sustained attention.
- Paul under close scrutiny Consider how passages about submission and silence become arguments against women's right to vote.
- Dissent within a movement Discover why Stanton's challenge provokes anger even among fellow supporters of women's suffrage.
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For readers who love women's history, religion and American reform, and anyone curious how people argue with a sacred text.
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- Stanton Targets the Bible as a Political Tool
- Two Creation Stories Tell Different Tales
- Eve Is Reread as Curious, Not Wicked
- Forgotten Women Get Their Due
- Law and Priesthood Keep Women Beneath
- Paul and the Epistles Are Challenged Directly
- A Book Made by a Committee of Women
- Suffragists Turn Against the Project
- What the Book Left Behind
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La Bibbia delle donne
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton · 1895
Elizabeth Cady Stanton answers biblical passages used against women with scholarship, irony and plain argument.
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The Woman's Bible is a commentary on the Bible written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a committee of women. It came out in two parts, in 1895 and 1898, in the United States.
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Stanton Targets the Bible as a Political Tool
Stanton begins from a practical problem. For decades she had watched ministers and legislators answer calls for women's rights with a Bible verse. Women, they said, were meant by God to obey. Stanton concluded that arguing law and justice was not enough while this belief held people's minds.
In her introduction she says that no other book has been used so steadily to keep women in a lower place. She points to the churches, the courts and the family, where scripture was quoted to settle the matter. For her the issue was not whether the Bible was true. The issue was that it was being used as a final authority against half the human race.
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What is The Woman's Bible about?
It is a commentary on the Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a committee of women. It selects passages about women and answers the claim that scripture places women beneath men.
Is The Woman's Bible a new translation of the Bible?
No. It prints verses from the King James Version and adds comments. It covers only the passages that concern women or are used to limit them, and leaves the rest of the Bible alone.
When was The Woman's Bible published?
It appeared in two parts, the first in 1895 and the second in 1898, in the United States. Stanton was in her eighties when she led the project.
The author
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1815–1902 · American suffragist and writer
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American suffragist and social reformer, a principal organizer of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and one of the founding voices of the women's rights movement. Eighty Years and More is her candid, spirited autobiography.
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