This lively historical account explains not just how feminism finally took root in American mainline churches, but why the change was so long in coming. Through its complex examination of the intersections of faith, gender, and anger at injustice, Good and Mad will be invaluable to anyone interested in the history of gender and religion in America.
This lively historical account explains not just how feminism finally took root in American mainline churches, but why the change was so long in coming. Through its complex examination of the intersections of faith, gender, and anger at injustice, Good and Mad will be invaluable to anyone interested in the history of gender and religion in America.
Margaret Bendroth is a historian who served over 15 years as Executive Director of the Congregational Library and Archives. She received her Ph.D. in American history from Johns Hopkins University and worked as a Professor of History at Calvin College from 1998 to 2004. Over the course of her career, she has been president of the American Society of Church History (2015) and authored and edited eight books and numerous articles on modern American religion, including The Last Puritans: Mainline Protestants and the Power of the Past (2015), Fundamentalists and the City: Conflict and Division in Boston's Churches, 1885-1950 (2005), and Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present (1993).
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* Table of Contents * Introduction * Chapter One: And Yet: Christian Womanhood after Suffrage * Portrait: Helen Barrett Montgomery's Bittersweet Missionary Jubilee * Chapter Two: The Gender of Efficiency: 'Woman's Mission' in a Modernizing Church * Chapter Three: Liberating the Ladies' Aid: Protestant Churchwomen in the 1930s * Chapter Four: Race and Class but Not Gender: Ambitions, Limitations, and Realities * Portrait: Anna Swain and the Fundamentalists * Chapter Five: Is the Church Male or Female? The Problem of Mainline Masculinity * Chapter Six: Forming the Question: A European Critique of 'Woman's Mission' * Chapter Seven: Pursuing Answers: Ecumenism and Feminism in the World Council of Churches, 1948-1953 * Portrait: Georgia Harkness and the Spirit of Heaviness * Chapter Eight: Assuming Equality: American Churchwomen in the 1950s * Chapter Nine: Finding Feminism: A Prehistory of Women's Liberation in Mainline Protestant Churches * Portrait: Cynthia Wedel and the Limits of Cooperation * Afterword: Stubborn, Unlaid Ghosts
* Table of Contents * Introduction * Chapter One: And Yet: Christian Womanhood after Suffrage * Portrait: Helen Barrett Montgomery's Bittersweet Missionary Jubilee * Chapter Two: The Gender of Efficiency: 'Woman's Mission' in a Modernizing Church * Chapter Three: Liberating the Ladies' Aid: Protestant Churchwomen in the 1930s * Chapter Four: Race and Class but Not Gender: Ambitions, Limitations, and Realities * Portrait: Anna Swain and the Fundamentalists * Chapter Five: Is the Church Male or Female? The Problem of Mainline Masculinity * Chapter Six: Forming the Question: A European Critique of 'Woman's Mission' * Chapter Seven: Pursuing Answers: Ecumenism and Feminism in the World Council of Churches, 1948-1953 * Portrait: Georgia Harkness and the Spirit of Heaviness * Chapter Eight: Assuming Equality: American Churchwomen in the 1950s * Chapter Nine: Finding Feminism: A Prehistory of Women's Liberation in Mainline Protestant Churches * Portrait: Cynthia Wedel and the Limits of Cooperation * Afterword: Stubborn, Unlaid Ghosts
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