Title: Women and twentieth-century Protestantism /
Authors: Bendroth, Margaret Lamberts, 1954-; Brereton, Virginia Lieson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Protestant women History
Abstract: Probes the meaning and impact of social change on women in the church.
Contents: Saints but not subordinates: the Women's Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Convention / Paul Harvey -- "Your daughters shall prophesy" : a history of women in ministry in the Latino Pentecostal movement in the United States / Gastón Espinosa -- Expanding feminism's field and focus: activism in the national council of churches in the 1960s and 1970s / Susan M. Hartmann -- The role of young people's societies in the training of Christian womanhood (and manhood), 1880-1910 / Christopher Coble -- Transnational women's activism: the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Japan and the United States / Rumi Yasutake -- Beyond Dr. Dobson: women, girls, and Focus on the Family / Colleen McDannell -- Unbinding their souls: Chinese Protestant women in twentieth-century America / Timothy Tseng -- Writing our way into history: gender, race, and the creation of Black denominational life / Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp -- Female suffering and religious devotion in American Pentecostalism / R. Marie Griffith -- "Let Christian women set the example in their own gifts": the "business" of Protestant women's organizations / Susan M. Yohn -- Healing hands, healthy bodies: Protestant women and faith healing in Canada and the United States, 1880-1930 / James W. Opp -- The women that publish the tidings: the International Association of Women Ministers / Mark Chaves -- Losing their religion: women, the state, and the ascension of secular discourse, 1890-1930 / Maureen Fitzgerald -- Feminism revisited: Protestantism and gender at the turn of the century / Ann Taves.