Evangelical Christian Women: War Stories in the Gender Battles

by Julie Ingersoll

Book Overview

Evangelical Christian Women draws on two years of ethnographic research nationwide to shed new light on the gender conflict faced by women in evangelical Christianity. Julie Ingersoll goes beyond previous attempts to find avenues of empowerment for fundamentalist women to offer a more nuanced look at the challenges they face when they occupy positions of leadership which violate traditional gender norms. She looks where other studies do...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814737706
• ISBN13: 9780814737705
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 8.5"