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Part II — Joshua to Revelation (1898)
Epistles to Timothy
The proof-texts of women's silence get their fullest answer here: the ban on women teaching, grounded in Eve's being formed second and deceived first — against which the committee sets Lois and Eunice, the mother and grandmother whose unfeigned faith taught Timothy everything he knew. The dress-code verses draw some of Stanton's most entertaining scorn.
'I suffer not a woman to teach'Modest apparel, braided hair and gold'Adam was first formed, then Eve'Lois and Eunice, Timothy's teachers