Meredith Fraser BA (Hons) B.Ed M.Phil 

Hello.  Welcome to my page.  I’m Meredith Fraser – Christian feminist, author, and deconstructer of interesting texts.   

You may have come here out of curiosity, or you may have come to glean some information for yourself or for a friend.  Whatever your reason, it is my earnest desire to give you the information you are looking for in a compact, easy-to-read form.  I know that most of you just do not have time to read every feminist theory, and to explore every possible interpretation of Biblical texts. It is my hope that I can present these to you simplistically but with accuracy. Please choose for yourself what you want to take or leave.   

When I was a child, I developed a very strong curiosity about God, but I attended churches that taught and endorsed oppressive middle class behavioral expectations for women.  I was personally neither middle-class, nor a child who was easily oppressed.  I knew that for girls like me, such a sociology was impossible. I didn’t fit the ‘criteria’ anyway. I was the result of a violent rape. My mother battled mental illness.  My step father was at best voyeuristic, at worst a pedophile.  I needed a theology about women that I could apply to my own life, and I lamented the lack of older women who were willing to talk about their own lives and experiences.  The silence on feminist thought was deafening.  I resolved to be that woman who was willing to talk about feminist theology, and feminist sociology. 

Please click on Women and Academia to find my abridged versions of Feminist theory.  

For too long, Biblical interpretations have remained in the hands of men.  The early church fathers determined which books would be included in the Biblical canon, and I have no quarrel with that.  Sifting through the countless scrolls had to be a tedious task.  What they also did, however, was translate with a misogynistic slant.  Many of the words in the Bible that have been used to oppress women up until this day, are not actually in the original Hebrew or Greek.  You didn’t know that – did you?  It is my intention to tell you what the text actually says, not what men want it to say.   

For those of you who want to read more on this topic, please click on Feminist Theology. 

My terrifying experience with my father, my step father, and my poor mother, left me with a keen understanding of abusive behavior.  It is a topic that the church has failed to address.  It is my hope that I can be of assistance to you here by posting précis of insightful and helpful articles and books on the topic.  Where possible, I’ll upload actual books.   

For  those of you who want to read more on this topic, please click on Women and their abusers.   

Finally, for those of you who, like me, wonder endlessly and curiously about the women who bypassed such church oppression to launch their own powerful ministries, then you will find my overviews on these women here on the fourth link.  

Please click on Christian women in History. 

I will use Chicago referencing wherever possible, so that those of you who are searching for information for academic purposes can easily cut and paste.   

Perhaps nothing here appealed to you.  So that you don’t go away empty handed, you’ll find bookmarks and prayers that you can print off, laminate, and give as gifts to your women friends.   

I pay for all of my own resources, and work at my own expense.  If you’d like to support me, please click on the ‘donate here’ link.   

Please be mindful that I’m building these pages slowly, and that there is much to share with you.  If something is missing, check back – you may find it here next week.