Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-330) and indexes.
Contents
Dutiful and less than dutiful wives -- Giving birth : labor, nursing, and the care of infants in house-church communities -- Growing up in house-church communities -- Female slaves : twice vulnerable -- Ephesians 5 and the politics of marriage -- Women leaders of households and Christian assemblies -- Women leaders in family funerary banquets / by Janet H. Tulloch -- Women patrons in the life of house churches -- Women as agents of expansion -- Conclusion : discovering a woman's place.