Abstract
During the last few years there has been a series of major changes in the Episcopal Church, perhaps the most pronounced being the disputed ordinations of women to the priesthood. In many respects, these events grew out of an elementary issue raised by the much discussed "Woman's Movement"?the issue of personal identity and/or self-perception. Unfortunately, much of the popular literature of this denomination has been devoted to the status of women as vestry members, lay readers, parish administrators, and clergy persons but has ignored the social attitudes and self-perceptions of clergy wives. Not only has the subject been basically ignored for more than a decade by ecclesiastical periodicals and diocesan journals, but there has been virtually no research conducted in the area. This is particularly surprising when one considers the number of clergy wives involved (ca. 9,400) in the changing nature of the church and the ramifications that have occurred and will continue to occur.
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