Classic Christian Feminist Books

Bristow, John Temple. What Paul Really Said about Women. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988.

Bushnell, Katherine.  God’s Word to Women.  Privately published, 1912, 1923.  Reprint available from God’s Word to Women Publishers, P.O. Box 315, Mossville, IL 61552.

Crawford, Janet, and Michale Kinnamon, eds.  In God’s Image:  Reflections on Identity, Human Wholeness, and the Authority of Scripture.  New York:  Friendship Press, 1983.

Daly, Mary.  Beyond God the Father.  Boston:  Beacon Press, 1973.

Daly, Mary.  Women in Church History.

Finger, Reta Halteman, and Kari Sandhaas, eds. The Wisdom of Daughters: Two Decades of the Voice of Christian Feminism. Philadelphia: Innisfree Press, 2001.

Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schussler.  Bread Not Stone:  The Challenge of Feminist Biblical Interpretation.  Boston:  Beacon Press, 1984.

Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schussler.  In Memory of Her:  Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins.  New York:  Crossroad, 1983.

Gundry, Patricia.  Heirs Together:  Mutual Submission in Marriage.  Grand Rapids:  Zondervan, 1980.

Gundry, Patricia. Woman Be Free!  Grand Rapids:  Zondervan, 1977.

Hagen, June Steffensen, ed., Rattling Those Dry Bones: Women Changing the Church. San Diego: LuraMedia, 1995.

Hardesty, Nancy.  Inclusive Language in the Church.  Atlanta:  John Knox Press, 1986.

Hardesty, Nancy.  Women Called to Witness:  Evangelical Feminism in the Nineteenth Century.  Nashville:  Abingdon Press, 1984.  2d ed. Knoxville:  University of Tennessee Press, 19

Hassey, Janette.  No Time for Silence:  Evangelical  Women in Public Ministry Around the Turn of the Century.   Grand Rapids:  Zondervan, 1983.

Hearn, Ginny.  Our Struggle to Serve:  The Stories of  15 Evangelical Women.  Waco, TX:  Word Books, 1978.

Jewett, Paul.  MAN as Male and Female.  Grand Rapids:  Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1975.

Jewett, Paul.  The Ordination of Women.  Grand Rapids:  Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1980.

Johnson, Elizabeth A. She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse. New York: Crossroad, 1992.

Kalven, Janet, and Mary I. Buckley, eds. Women’s Spirit Bonding. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1984.

Mercadante, Linda.  From Hierarchy to Equality:  A Comparison of Past and Present Interpretations of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 in Relation to the Changing Status of Women in Society.  Vancouver, B.C.:  G-M-H Books, Regent College, 1978.

Mickelson, Berkeley, and Alvera Mickelson.  “Does Male Dominance Tarnish Our Translations?”  Christianity Today, October 5, 1979, pp 23-27.

Mollenkott, Virginia Ramey.  The Divine Feminine:  The Biblical Imagery of God as Female.  New York:  Crossroad, 1983.

Mollenkott, Virginia Ramey.  Godding:  Human Responsibility and the Bible.  New York:  Crossroad, 1987.

Mollenkott, Virginia Ramey.  Speech, Silence, Action!  Nashville:  Abingdon Press, 1980.

Mollenkott, Virginia Ramey.  Women, Men, and the Bible.  Nashville: Abingdon, 1977.   Rev. ed.  New York:  Crossroad, 1988.

Moltmann-Wendel, Elisabeth.  The Women around Jesus.  New York:  Crossroad, 1982.

Morton, Nell.  The Journey Is Home.  Boston:  Beacon Press, 1985.

Otwell, John.  H.  And Sarah Laughed.  Philadelphia:  Westminster Press, 1977.

Penn-Lewis, Jessie.  The Magna Charta of Women.  Bournemouth, UK:  The Overcomer Book Room, 1919.  Reprint ed., Minneapolis:  Bethany Fellowship, 1975.

Ruether, Rosemary.  Disputed Questions:  On Being a Christian.  Nashville:  Abingdon Press, 1982.

Ruether, Rosemary.  New Woman, New Earth:  Sexist Ideologies and Human Liberation.  New York:  Seabury Press, 1975.

Ruether, Rosemary.  Religion and Sexism.   New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1974.

Ruether, Rosemary.  Sexism and God-Talk:  Toward a Feminist Theology.  Boston:  Beacon Press, 1983.

Ruether, Rosemary.  Womanguides:Readings Toward a Feminist Theology.  Boston:  Beacon Press, 1985.

Ruether, Rosemary.  Women-Church:  Theology and Practice.  San Francisco:  Harper & Row, 1985.

Ruether, Rosemary,  and Rosemary Skinner Keller, Women & Religion in America: A Documentary History. Published in three volumes.  San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1981, 1983, 1986.

Russell, Letty, ed.,  Feminist Interpretation of the Bible.  Philadelphia:  Westminster Press, 1985.

Russell, Letty, ed.,  Human Liberation in a Feminist Perspective — A Theology.  Philadelphia:  Westminister Press, 1974.

Russell, Letty, ed.,  The Liberating Word.  Philadelphia:  Westminster Press, 1975.

Sayers, Dorothy L. Are Women Human?  Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1971.

Scanzoni, Letha Dawson, and Nancy A. Hardesty.  All We’re Meant to Be:  Biblical Feminism for Today.  Waco, TX:  Word Books, 1974.  2d ed., Nashville:  Abingdon Press, 1986.  3d rev. ed.  Grand Rapids:  Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1992.

Scanzoni, Letha Dawson, and Virginia Ramey Mollenkott.  Is the Homosexual My Neighbor?  San Francisco:  Harper & Row, 1978.  Rev. ed.

Scholer, David.  “Feminist Hermeneutics and Evangelical Interpretation.”  Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 30 (December 1987): 407-20.

Solle, Dorothee.  The Strength of the Weak:  Toward a Christian Feminist Identity.  Philadelphia:  Westminster Press, 1984.

Spencer, Aida Besancom.  Beyond the Curse.  Nashville:  Thomas Nelson, 1985.

Swartley, Willard M.  Slavery, Sabbath, War, and Women.  Scottdale, PA:  Herald Press, 1983.

Tennis, Diane.  Is God the Only Reliable Father?  Philadelphia:  Westminster Press, 1985.

Thistlethwaite, Susan Brooks.  Sex, Race, and God:  Christian Feminism in Black and White.  New York:  Crossroad, 1984.

Trible, Phyllis.  God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality.  Philadelphia:  Fortress Press, 1978.

Trible, Phyllis.  Texts of Terror:  Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives.  Philadelphia:  Fortress Press, 1984.

Wahlberg, Rachel.  Jesus According to a Woman.  New York:  Paulist Press, 1975.

Weems, Renita.  Just a Sister Away:  A Womanist Version of Women’s Relationships in the Bible.  San Diego:  LuraMedia, 1988.

Weidman, Judith  L., ed.  Christian Feminist:  Visions of a New Humanity.  San Francisco:  Harper & Row, 1984,

Wilson-Kastner, Patricia.  Faith, Feminism, and the Christ.  Philadelphia:  Fortress Press, 1983.