The Proverbs 31 Superwoman - Ideal or Impossibility? - Carole Ritter - August 1976

Carole Ritter

Proverbs 31 has been quoted over and over again as a description of the perfect woman. It has been used to show the wide range of activities such a paragon might engage in - how industrious and virtuous a good wife could be. But is Proverbs 31 still a viable model for ideal womanhood - can it really be used in the twentieth century as a practical guide to living? The Christian woman today is caught in a quandary. She's beset on every side by a crowd of "experts" giving all kinds of advice on how she should live her life. But who to listen to? Those rabid feminists who view all males as chauvinist pigs and want to be more equal than the "enemy"? Those of the quasi-religious anti-lib backlash who promise fur coats and adoration from husbands manipulated through principles of submission and sex supposedly derived from the Bible? Or the assorted givers of advice anywhere on the spectrum in between? - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library