ABSTRACT
As women's emancipation made headlines and its effects were felt – women voting in elections, sporting short hairstyles, working in professions, riding motorbikes and flying planes, women preaching in pulpits – the churches added Mothers’ Day to the liturgical calendar. In this way, they formalised a theology of womanhood and fixed it as part of the church's tradition. But the nature of women and their part in Christianity was far from settled.
