Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present

by Margaret Lamberts Bendroth

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300068646
• ISBN13: 9780300068641
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Bendroth recounts fear among fundamentalist patriarchs

Ms. Bendroth has done a superb job is recounting the fear of 19th century fundamentalist patriarchs for powerful women. Her citations of original documents supports her claim that Protestant Fundamentalism's militant denial of women's rights is at least 120 years old. This volume would be more easily digested if the reader had a good working knowledge of Protestant Fundamentalism's history since 1850.