Paul and Gender: Reclaiming the Apostle's Vision for Men and Women in Christ (Biblia.com)

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A Coherent Pauline Theology of Gender Respected New Testament scholar Cynthia Long Westfall offers a coherent Pauline theology of gender, which includes fresh perspectives on the most controverted texts. Westfall interprets passages on women and men together and places those passages in the context of the Pauline corpus as a whole. She offers viable alternatives for some notorious interpretive...

women were flouting the convention of wearing a veil in the house church and were corrected by Paul in 1 Corinthians 11:3–16. The situation in Corinth, together with the dress-code issue and the formal features of the text, suggest that there are other, more plausible contexts than have been typically explored for the context of the passage. The issue in 1 Corinthians 11:3–16 is primarily the proper dress code for women and men when they pray or prophesy in the house

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