Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England
by:
Susan Juster (author)
"Juster 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...
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"Juster 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."--Library Journal
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780801483882 (0801483883)
Publish date: October 24th 1996
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
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