All That Fits a Woman : Training Southern Baptist Women for Charity and Mission, 1907-1926

by Scales, T. Laine

• ISBN13: 9780865546684
• ISBN10: 0865546681
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Mercer Univ Pr

Summary

All That Fits a Woman: Training Southern Baptist Women for Charity and Mission, 1907-1926 is a detailed, well-researched and well-written account of the lives of women missionaries and others associated with the Women's Missionary Union Training School in Louisville, Kentucky. It includes case studies of individual women, and careful description and analysis of curriculum and architecture and material culture.

The Woman's Missionary Union Training School provided enormous educational opportunities for Southern Baptist women, while ensuring that they would study and serve within limits defined for them by male seminary faculty and by women leaders of the WMU. This history offers a critical view from a feminist theoretical perspective, focusing on the subtle forms of teaching that have been used and are still used today to exclude Southern Baptist women from the preaching ministry and from leadership within the denomination. This timely work resonates with current issues as Southern Baptists continue to draw national attention for their stance on submission of

Author Biography

T. Laine Scales is assistant professor of social work at Baylor University.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(16)
Organizing for Service: Southern Baptist Women and the Woman's Missionary Union	17	(50)
``Such Noble Women They Were'': Founders, Faculty, and Students of the WMU Training School	67	(40)
``All That Fits a Woman'': The Training School Curriculum	107	(30)
The Lessons of House Beautiful: Daily Life and Learning	137	(42)
The Gospel and Goodwill: The Baptist Training School Settlement House	179	(28)
Take the Light: Alumnae in Christian Service	207	(44)
Epilogue: 1926-1999	251	(16)
Bibliography	267	(14)
Index	281