Unstoppable - Grindal, Gracia
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When Lutheran church leaders came from Norway in the middle of the nineteenth century, educational plans for each gender were based on deeply held beliefs about what a man was and what a woman was. Teenage boys were to be educated at a school away from home--Luther College for those in the Norwegian Synod. Girls were to be educated in the parlors of an aunt or close friends of her parents. At the time they immigrated, how to educate their children had been central to the cultural debates of their day. Those arguments lived on in this country while the Norwegian Synod pastors were deciding how…mehr

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When Lutheran church leaders came from Norway in the middle of the nineteenth century, educational plans for each gender were based on deeply held beliefs about what a man was and what a woman was. Teenage boys were to be educated at a school away from home--Luther College for those in the Norwegian Synod. Girls were to be educated in the parlors of an aunt or close friends of her parents. At the time they immigrated, how to educate their children had been central to the cultural debates of their day. Those arguments lived on in this country while the Norwegian Synod pastors were deciding how to build such institutions for their children. Now they lived not only in a new land and culture, but also in a new era when the role of women was changing.
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Gracia Grindal is an Augsburg College graduate, daughter of a Lutheran Free Church pastor, and professor emeritus of rhetoric at Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Prior to joining the seminary faculty, she was a longtime professor of English at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Grindal has published over twenty books of poetry, many hymns, and histories of hymnody and Norwegian American women.