作为美国最为权威的宗教教义之一,《圣经》被男权主义者充分利用,为他们维护男尊女卑的社会秩序提供神圣的依据。为了消除这一性别歧视的宗教根源,19世纪美国一些女权主义者从不同的角度对《圣经》展开了批评。她们一方面批判《圣经》中对女性的歧视,另一方面重新诠释《圣经》中的女性或与女性相关的章节,重构《圣经》女性形象,为美国自由女权主义、文化女权主义及基督教女权主义等的发展做出了重大贡献。
As the most authoritative religious doctrines in the west, Bible has been taken advantages by male chauvinists as a divine evidence for a patriachical social order. In order to eliminate this religious origin of gender discrimination, 19th century American feminists criticizes Bible from various perspec tives. On one hand, they condemns discriminations of women in Bible . On the other hand, they re interpretate women figures or chapters related to women in it and reconstructed the images of women, which has greatly contributed to the development of liberal feminism, cultural feminism and Christian feminism in the feminist history.