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Author Rose, Mavis.

Title Freedom from sanctified sexism : women transforming the church / Mavis Rose
Published MacGregor, Qld. : Allira, 1996

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Description iii, 246 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Contents Preface. -- 1. Women shaped by colonial culture and religious patriarchy. -- 2. Clergy - their attitudes to and images of women. -- 3. Laywomen's struggle for a voice in church government. -- 4. Formal women's ministry: The deaconess. -- 5. Women in religious orders. -- 6. Clergy wives: Ministry in the shadows. -- 7. The Ecumenical movement awakening women. -- 8. Feminism in the Anglican communion. -- 9. Rising protest from women. -- 10. The movement for the ordination of women. -- Part I. The formative years. -- Part II. The final struggle. -- 11. Debate on the ordination of women. -- 12. Reflection
Analysis Feminism - Religious aspects - Christianity
Notes Fron the library of Revd Diane Heath
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Anglican Church of Australia -- History.
Anglican Church of Australia.
Anglican Church of Australia -- Clergy -- History -- 20th century.
Anglican Communion -- Australia -- History.
Feminist theology.
Feminism -- Australia -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Ordination of women -- Australia.
Sexism in religion.
Women clergy -- Australia -- History.
Women clergy.
Women in church work -- Anglican Church of Australia
Women in church work -- Australia.
Women in the Anglican Communion -- Australia -- History.
Women in the Anglican Communion -- Australia.
SUBJECT Australia -- Church history. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114304
LC no. 96180202
ISBN 0646273116