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 curse, or a gift? And when Jesus redeemed women, what was it exactly that he redeemed?\ Even after Eden, Fincher points out,...
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In Ruby Slippers, Jonalyn Grace Fincher explores the essence of femininity. She examines what a soul is, what is meant by 'feminine,' and how those two things unite into a picture of God on Earth that is both similar and distinctive from men.
Note to the reader 7Introduction: femininity beyond fairy tales 9Materialism for women 29Uncorking the soul 46The same planet 63Leaving eden 80A natural woman 99Finding the feminine in the sacred 142Frailty, thy name is woman 161Far as the curse is found 175Epilogue 192Notes 194Recommended resources 215Acknowledgments 217
