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Ruby Slippers: How the Soul of a Woman Brings Her Home
Jonalyn Fincher wants to show that women can be both fully human and fully feminine. Traditionally, femininity has been a role women play, a role defined by culture and simplistic sermons. The author encourages women to look at the feminine roles or boxes that pinch their souls: mother, fashion devotee, working wife, intellectual. Does God treat femininity as a role, a jud...more
Hardcover, 217 pages
Published
April 1st 2007
by Zondervan Publishing Company
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I think this is the best book I've read so far on femininity from a Christian perspective-- and I've read a lot of books on gender!! I don't agree with everything she says, but it sparked some great conversations/questions/thought/further research. She's tackling an emotionally charged question-- what does it really MEAN that God created women to uniquely reflect God? and she does it with integrity, humility, and warmth. I recommend this book!
so far so good. I love her take on feminine qualities... although I might be a bit too liberal to buy into all her stuff. My women's study is reading it.
This book is a healing book. It doesn't illuminate the differences of men and women like Mars & Venus; it doesn't bash men or women, but redefines how women are created in the image of God.
One of my favorite points:
"I often thought of Woman's beginnings as more evidence that Woman wasn't important enough for God to make first. Now I think God made Woman second because he needed the appropriate human, living material, to form her. Woman is the only creature who was created from a piece of l...more
One of my favorite points:
"I often thought of Woman's beginnings as more evidence that Woman wasn't important enough for God to make first. Now I think God made Woman second because he needed the appropriate human, living material, to form her. Woman is the only creature who was created from a piece of l...more
I still haven't figured out what I believe about gender roles, but this book on Christian womanhood comes closer to the target than anything I've read yet. Jonalyn Fincher makes a case that femininity is embedded in women's very souls. Through scientific, philosophical, and theological research, she identifies traits that are common to women, while warning against using those traits as scorecards. She unpacks Eve, how the Fall affected woman's nature, and how Jesus wants to heal and redeem our w...more
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I enjoyed this. I've had many of the same thoughts over the years. I appreciate her desire to bring in both a biblical and experiential perspective. Worth reading. it is neither angry feminism or mind numbing docility.
Really thorough and beautiful. Incredibly uplifting, and affirming of women as images of God, without devolving into new-agey wishy-washiness.
My review of this book does not necessarily reflect the book's actual quality or the skill of the author--as suggested by the "pop-up hints" under the stars, I rated this book as, "It was ok," simply because I could not make myself keep reading it. I am sure that many women enjoyed this book, but with a reading list a mile long, anything that does not hold my attention eventually must be moved out of the reading pile.
I used this book for a women's book club in my church and absolutely loved it. The author dug in deep and forced you to face attitudes and misconceptions that society has caused women to believe without question for too long. A great read.
Wonderful book. It taught me more about being a woman than any other book I've read. It was refreshing to read.
rereading this book and searching for a great quote she wrote in the back chapters
Am currently reading, recieved as a birthday gift from the editor.
This book is by far the most encouraging and challenging books I have ever read on what it means to be feminine and free.
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