Ungodly Women: Gender and the First Wave of American Fundamentalism

by Deberg, Betty A.

• ISBN13: 9780865547117
• ISBN10: 0865547114
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Mercer Univ Pr

Summary

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. In 1990, Betty A. DeBerg's groundbreaking study filled 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. Since then, Ungodly Women: Gender and the First Wave of American Fundamentalism has remained the standard source on the subject. Unlike other interpreters, DeBerg convincingly argues that these concerns were central to American fundamentalism.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Valarie Ziegler
Preface to the Reprint Edition	xiii
Preface	xv
Introduction	1	(12)
Late Victorian Gender Roles	13	(30)
Conservative Protestantism and the Separate Spheres	43	(16)
The Divinized Home	59	(16)
Reclaiming the Church for Men	75	(24)
Fundamentalists and the Flapper	99	(20)
Fundamentalist Theology and Gender Roles	119	(26)
Religion and the Gender Agenda	145	(10)
Appendix. Primary Sources	155	(6)
Index	161