Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England
Juster (history, Univ. of Michigan) examines the changing role of Baptist women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England. At first essentially equal to men in church governance and in the right to speak in church, women were gradually excluded from power in Baptist churches after the Revolution. As the Baptist church adopted a more patriarchal model of church organization, women were not only marginalized and silenced but associated because of gender with several serious sins, including sexual misconduct, lying, and slander. For an earlier, more general discussion of Baptists in New England, see William G. McLoughlin's New England Dissent 1630-1833: The Baptists and the Separation of Church and State (1971) and Soul Liberty: The Baptists' Struggle in New England, 1630-1833 (Univ. Pr. of New England, 1991). Appropriate for academic libraries and collections in women's studies and history of religion.Patricia A. Beaber, Trenton State Coll. Lib., N.J.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.