Mature womanhood centers in freedom and equality, not submission and silence. Mature manhood reveals itself in a man’s refusal to subject women to his supposed authority and in his freedom to pursue his calling as he lives in equality with women in home, church, and society. None of the “correct” views on gender seem to vigorously wrestle with how the Bible might define a feminine woman or a masculine man. As I hope to show, biblical words combine with stories and instructions in the Bible to indicate