The Gospel According to Woman Christianity's Creation of the Sex War in the West

The notion of women's inferiority to men is one that is common to all cultures, yet Christianity has been more destructive than any other religion in perpetuating this idea. In her lively and well-argued account, covering the past 2,000 years, of how the Church has treated women, Karen Armstrong shows the devastating effect Christianity has had on our society, how women have continually sought to escape the ignominy of being Eve, and how in this century the radical feminist's withdrawal from the world of men is merely a secular expression of the age-old Christian course women were forced to adopt. The overall purpose of this book is to get Western women to confront their heritage; to understand how they have been conditioned; to recognize the good as well as the bad, and to learn from it. If it persuades them to think as well as to fight, then the good news in her title will be justified.