Born 1982; University lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland; Associate Professor in church history at the University of Helsinki.

• I Introduction1. The aim and context of the study - 2. Gender, gender system, and power - 3. Sources - 4. A note on translationsII Life in the Flesh-A Premise for All Human Beings1. Diversity of Luther's body-talk - 2. Luther's body politics: Bodily needs and the ideal of social controlIII Female Body and Femininity1. Lived bodiliness: Created for subordination - 2. Mission larger than life: Motherhood - 3. Luther in favor of elite women and female activistsIV Male Body and Masculinity1. Man as the paragon of the human race - 2. Unstable male bodies: Redefining ideals through depictions of male sexualityV Bodiliness and the Reconstruction of Gender in Luther's Marriage1. Manhood in transition: The beginning of the Luther marriage - 2. From otherness to dominance: Katharina von Bora - 3. Luther the father, von Bora the bearerVI Because of or Despite the Gendered Body? Rules and Exceptions Among Luther's Contemporaries1. Little wife and counseling husband: Elisabeth and Johann Agricola - 2. "The Scripture becomes fulfilled in our body": Katharina and Justus Jonas - 3. Gender system endangered: Ursula and Stephan RothVII The Gender System Rooted In and Beyond the Body: Conclusions