Sue Monk Kidd writes her own personal story of discovering how distorted her world view is because of her indoctrination by traditional views held by Christian communities. Essentially, she experiences the unfortunate side-effects of institutionalized paternalism.
Her gradual awakening and journey to the point where she can come to God as Woman to find her roots as a woman herself.
We all know that theologically God is genderless, but we humans do need to use our language constructs to talk about God. It is difficult to personalize a genderless being without reference to our pronouns that reference gender. At any rate, the author does discover herself as a woman by negotiating a road that brings her into dissonance with traditional Christianity.
Every woman should read at least some work that deals with this issue. There are many theologians (Elizabeth Johnson, Mary Daly,
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza) who have devoted their careers to the understanding of God as Woman!
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