Talk:Women in the Protestant Reformation

Needs more historical coverage

This is decent basic coverage from a church-history perspective, but it doesn't include references to recent work on the social history of European women during the Reformation, which would provide more nuanced information. ---Shane Landrum (cliotropic | talk | contribs) 17:21, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

This entry devolves into a litany of various denominational perspectives on the role of women in church life and does not restrict itself to discussing women during the Reformation. It also fails to include notable women of the Reformation including Katatina von Bora and Anne Lock. It would benefit from more research and less agenda. ---Hannah Anderson (hranderson) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hranderson (talk • contribs) 13:33, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

I would also be concerned about the lack of citations to support statements such as "Women were to be silent, obedient, and to perform household tasks." At best a generalization, at worst an uncited opinion which ignores the differences between social classes. Dimadick (talk) 06:31, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

There is a dead link in the footnote at the assertion that Calvin said "a woman's place is in the home." This needs to be verified and fixed for the actual evidence.

Quotes from different eras

Many of the quotes listed are not from the Reformation, but from Victorian and Great Awakening era Theologians. John Wesley isn't a part of the Reformation era, nor is John Gill (born 170 years after Luther's Theses were posted), and A. Hastings Boss wrote 300 years after the Reformation. These are much more accurately described as Protestant attitudes towards women in the 18th-19th centuries, and don't seem appropriate given the title of the article. I'm not super sure how to fix it, since demoninations as institutions arose a bit later, and these quotes are pretty much only from denominations that took root in the UK and United States. Maybe better to focus on the Reformation itself rather than poorly covering 300 years of English-speaking Protestantism? 173.61.196.138 (talk) 14:17, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Note

Since this article is suppose to be about women during the Reformation, I will remove the chapters about women in ecclasiastic positions in various protestant churches. While the chapters are well written and referenced, they do not correspond to the subject of the article, since they describe rules introduced in these churches several hundred years after the Reformation.--Aciram (talk) 03:07, 28 December 2020 (UTC)