Women Under the Cross: Changing Gender Roles in Christian Families

"This is one of the rare books to be written on Christian women in India. It is a sociological study but has the range and depth of a historical work. The author has not limited herself to a micro level study of Protestant Christian women in the town of Jabalpur, but has attempted a broad macro level analysis of the ideology of the Christian Church, the entry and spread of Protestant faith in India and its impact on the lives of Christian converts. The book focusses minutely on the conceptualization of gender within the Christian cosmology and how this has defined the role and status of women within the Christian families. In a dynamic analysis the author has outlined the changes taking place in the position of women over the historical phase from early conversion to the onset of modernity."