Introduction / Amy-Jill Levine -- Paul and the genealogy of gender / Daniel Boyarin -- Sexy stoics and the redeading of Romans 1.8-2.16 / Diana Swancutt -- To turn the groaning into labor: Romans 8:22-23 / Luzia Sutter Rehmann -- Our Mother St. Paul: toward the recovery of a neglected theme / Beverly Roberts Gaventa -- Women's inheritance rights in antiquity and Paul's metaphor of adoption / Kathleen E. Corley -- Philemon and the patriarchal Paul / Sara B. C. Winter -- Paul on the relationship between men and women / Richard B. Hays -- Virgins, widows and wives: the women of 1 Corinthians 7 / Margaret Y. MacDonald -- Does Paul make a difference? / Faith Kirkham Hawkins -- 'Law-free gentile Christianity': what about the women? Feminist analyses and alternatives / Luise Schottroff.