In this seriously-worth-your-time episode, we explore how Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 1895 "The Women's Bible" called out religious justifications for female subordination that mirror today's Christian nationalist rhetoric.
Here's what you get:
• Examining the books of Mark and Luke, which address marriage, divorce, and women's status in early Christianity
• Stanton reveals how the New Testament made divorce laws even more restrictive for women
• Challenging the prioritization of self-sacrifice over self-development for women
• Ellen Battelle Dietrick uncovers women erased from Christian history like Thecla and Paula
• Documentation of how a woman's crucial role in creating the Latin Bible was deliberately erased
• Connecting Biblical patriarchy to economic systems that benefit from women's unpaid labor
• Identifying religious hypocrisy when rules are selectively applied to control rather than uplift
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Credits
Recorded at Troubadour Studios in Lansing, MI
Audio Engineer Corey DeRushia
Edited by Rie Daisies at Nighttime Girlfriend Studio
Music: ‘Shifting pt. 2 (instrumental)’ by Rie Daisies
Executive Producer Kathleen ML Rogers
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