Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present / Margaret Lamberts Bendroth

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bendroth, Margaret Lamberts, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in fundamentalist churches--History--20th century.

Women in fundamentalist churches.

Sex role--Religious aspects--History of doctrines--Christianity--20th century.

Sex role.

Fundamentalism--Religious aspects--History of doctrines--Christianity--20th century.

Fundamentalism.

Modernist-fundamentalist controversy--Christianity--History of doctrines--Religious aspects.

Modernist-fundamentalist controversy.

Feminism.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Fundamentalism and gender, 1875 to the present.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1993]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This fascinating book depicts the long-running battle within the fundamentalist movement over the roles of men and women both within the church and outside it. Drawing on interviews as well as on written sources, Margaret Lamberts Bendroth surveys the complicated interplay between fundamentalist theology, which is dominated by the search for order and hierarchical gender roles that have women subservient to men, and fundamentalist practice, which often depends on women in important ways to further the movement's institutional growth. Bendroth begins by describing the earliest days of the fundamentalist movement, when there was a general acceptance of women in ministry roles as teachers, missionaries, and even occasional preachers. She then traces fundamentalism's growing identification with masculine concerns after World War I and its battle with the forces of modernity (such as the rebellious flappers of the twenties). Bendroth explains that in the years before World War II women were able once again to make substantial contributions to the movement, but that during the cultural turn toward domesticity in the 1950s, fundamentalist leaders urged women to retreat to their "ordained" roles as submissive helpmates and encouraged men to fill the teaching and organizational positions the women vacated. Bendroth brings this conflict up to the present, examining the fundamentalist and evangelical rejection of contemporary feminism and investigating how our cultural norms of equality affect these movements' teaching on gender roles.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Revivalism and Masculinity in Early Fundamentalism

2. The Roots of Antifeminism: Early Fundamentalism's Search for Order

3. Fundamentalist Men and Liberal Women: Gender in the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy

4. Gender and Vocation in Fundamentalist Institutions

5. The Fundamentalist Family

Epilogue: The Meaning of Evangelical Feminism

Abbreviations

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300157741

0300157746

OCLC:

1024022548