A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
Barr traces the pastor's wife role through history and personal experience, asking how it constrained and enabled women's ministry.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Why it’s in the Library
It helps readers see how women have experienced, interpreted, contested, and shaped religious life in a specific setting.
Good starting place if…
You want to understand why a spouse's role became a recognized path for women in conservative churches.
Know before you begin…
Focuses especially on Protestant leadership and Barr's experience; not a history of every woman's vocation.