The author spends a year exploring traditional Biblical roles for women, including such activities as interviewing a polygamist's wife, visiting an Amish school, abstaining from gossip, and corresponding with an Orthodox Jewish woman

October: gentleness, girl gone mild -- November: domesticity, Martha, Martha -- December: obedience, my husband, my master -- January: valor, will the real Proverbs 31 woman please stand up? -- February: beauty, my breasts are like towers -- March: modesty, hula-hooping with the Amish -- April: purity, the worst time of the month to go camping -- May: fertility, quivers full of arrows and sippy cups -- June: submission, a disposition to yield -- July: justice, eat more guinea pig -- August: silence, I am woman, hear me no more -- September: grace, days of awe