History of women in the United States. 13, Religion : historical articles on women's lives and activities / edited with an introduction by Nancy F. Cott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cott, Nancy F., editor, writer of foreword.

Series:

History of Women in the United States ; Volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and religion--United States--History.

Women and religion.

Women in Christianity--United States--History.

Women in Christianity.

Women--United States--History.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (499 pages)

Edition:

Reprint 2012

Place of Publication:

Munich, [Germany] : K. G. Saur, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Religion".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Series Preface

Introduction

Religion

The Feminization of American Congregationalism, 1730-1835 / SHIELS, RICHARD D.

Young Women in the Second Great Awakening in New England / COTT, NANCY F.

Domesticity and Religion in the Antebellum Period: The Career of Phoebe Palmer / LOVELAND, ANNE C.

A Women's Awakening: Evangelical Religion and the Families of Utica, New York, 1800-1840 / RYAN, MARY P.

Maternity ... of the Spirit: Nuns and Domesticity in Antebellum America / MANNARD, JOSEPH G.

Evangelical Womanhood in the Nineteenth Century: The Role of Women in Sunday Schools / BOYLAN, ANNE M.

Memoranda and Documents: The Feminization Controversy: Sexual Stereotypes and the Paradoxes of Piety in Nineteenth-Century America / REYNOLDS, DAVID S.

Women in the Presbyterian Church - An Historical Overview / PENFIELD, JANET HARBISON

Religion and the New England Mill Girl: A New Perspective on an Old Theme / LAZEROW, JAMA

"Female Laborers in the Church": Women Preachers in the Northeastern United States, 1790-1840 / BILLINGTON, LOUIS

She Hath Done What She Could: Protestant Women's Missionary Careers in Nineteenth-Century America / WELTER, BARBARA

Outside the Mainstream: Women's Religion and Women Religious Leaders in Nineteenth-Century America / BEDNAROWSKI, MARY FARRELL

"Together and in Harness": Women's Traditions in the Sanctified Church / GILKES, CHERYL TOWNSEND

"Christian Woman, Pious Wife, Faithful Mother, Devoted Missionary": Conflicts in Roles of American Missionary Women in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii / GRIMSHAW, PATRICIA

The Local Parish as a Female Institution: The Experience of All Saints Episcopal Church in Frontier Minnesota / GUNDERSEN, JOAN R.

Women's Response to Plural Marriage / MEHR, KAHLILE

Zenanas and Girlless Villages: The Ethnology of American Evangelical Women, 1870-1910 / BRUMBERG, JOAN JACOBS

Sisters of St. Joseph: The Americanization of a French Tradition / BYRNE, PATRICIA

Catholic Women Religious and Women's History: A Survey of the Literature / KOLMER, ELIZABETH

Transitions in Judaism: The Jewish American Woman through the 1930s / PRATT, NORMA FAIN

In Search of Unconventional Women: Histories of Puerto Rican Women in Religious Vocations before Mid-Century / KORROL, VIRGINIA SÁNCHEZ

Catholic Laywomen in the Culture of American Catholicism in the 1950s / BURNS, JEFFREY M.

Copyright Information

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 26, 2016).

ISBN:

3-11-097494-0

OCLC:

979630346