Ungodly Women: Gender and the First Wave of American Fundamentalism (Three Indispensable Studies of American Evangelicalism)
Advance Praise for Ungodly Women:"[Betty DeBerg's] focus on early fundamentalist concerns to preserve Victorian family values and sexual mores helps round out our understanding of the dynamics of the early movement and its continuities with recent fundamentalism."—George Marsden, University of Notre Dame"DeBerg's 1990 work announced with clarity what the primary sources had long been trumpeting, if scholars had only noticed that the rise of American fundamentalism was inextricably tied to men's anxieties about retaining their dominant status over women.  No book has ever shown with greater precision (or volume) of documentation just how thoroughly saturated with gender concerns the literature of early fundamentalism was....   Ungodly Women is today what it was at its original publication in 1990: the best examination of gender and fundamentalism ever written."—Valarie Ziegler, DePauw University