This book was okay. It mostly worked to expose how many names in the New Testament are women, and what their roles might have been both in the church and the broader culture. We often cast a 19th and 20th century view of gender roles backwards on Biblical times when in reality those cultures were more open and less conservative than we imagine.

I had hoped this book would talk about the church in the centuries CE, like up until the medieval era, but it didn't. I prefered The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr because she has a sharper exposition of the household code passages and she covers more history.