Without benefit of clergy : women and the pastoral relationship in nineteenth-century American culture /
Gedge, Karin E.(Karin Erdevig),1949-
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-283) and index.
Contents: Introduction: Dim views of the pastoral relationship -- The bellwether ; or, What the traveler saw --Gone astray ; or, What the public feared -- Mending fences ; or, What the public saw -- Paradoxical pastors ; or, What the novelist imagined -- Forbidden and forgotten territory ; or, Where the pastor feared to tread -- The unsteady shepherd ; or, What the pastor experienced -- Sheep without a shepherd ; or, What women experienced -- Epilogue: Separating the ewes from the rams; or, Seeing through a new lens.
Clergy
Christian women
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Christian women