What A Young Woman Ought To Know - Religion
Throughout this book, Mary Wood-Allen draws upon the importance of living a life for God.
Phrases like “God has placed you in the world,” and “God’s divinest gift of human love,” are scattered throughout the book.21
These references to God imply that the young women reading this book should not just be wanting to live a moral life, but a moral Christian life. This comes as no surprise either as women were seen as the center of morality and therefore the center of Christian behavior.
Though they were not as eminent as men in organized Christianity they were the force of maintaining the moral values that organized Christianity purported.
Read these selected pages from the chapter titled “What Are You Worth?” and notice the references to Christian morality that Wood-Allen incorporates.
What A Young Woman Ought to Know
21 Wood-Allen, 25-208.