Ungodly women : gender and the first wave of American fundamentalism /
As regards both academic historians and popular understandings since the rise of the Religious Right in the 1980s, analysis of American fundamentalism has neglected a large body of literature about gender roles and social conventions. Betty A. DeBerg's groundbreaking study fills that important...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Macon, Ga. :
Mercer University Press,
2000.
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| Summary: | As regards both academic historians and popular understandings since the rise of the Religious Right in the 1980s, analysis of American fundamentalism has neglected a large body of literature about gender roles and social conventions. Betty A. DeBerg's groundbreaking study fills that important gap, analyzing the roots and character of fundamentalism in light of rapid changes and severe disruptions in gender-role ideology and actual social behavior in America between 1880 and 1930. Unlike interpreters such as George Marsden -- who has seen the contemporary Religious Right's concerns over feminism, abortion, and the breakdown of the family as recent developments -- DeBerg convincingly argues that these concerns were central in the "first wave of American fundamentalism."--Back cover. |
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| Item Description: | New ed. Originally published: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, ©1990. |
| Physical Description: | xvii, 165 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-159) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0865547114 9780865547117 |