- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : portraits.
- Summary
- "Good and Mad tells the story of women in liberal Protestant churches, the so-called "mainline," during a complex era, after the suffrage amendment and before the advent of second wave feminism. These socially progressive churchwomen, predominantly white but also African American, coastal urbanites as well as salt-of-the-earth Southerners and Midwesterners, campaigned for human rights and global peace, worked for interracial cooperation, and opened the path to women's ordination-and chose to do so within churches that denied them equality. Historian Margaret Bendroth explores the paradoxes and conflicting loyalties of churchwomen in this "between time," interweaving a larger story with vignettes of individual women who knew both the value of compromise and the cost of anger. This lively historical account, told with women at the center rather than the periphery, incorporates the efforts of churchwomen from the rural South to the halls of the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland. It explains not just how feminism finally took root in American mainline churches, but why change was so long in coming"--
- Uniform Title
- Good and mad (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Good and mad (Online)
- Subject
- Protestant women > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-241) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- LCCN
- 2022027381
- OCLC
- ssj0002714076
- Author
Bendroth, Margaret, 1954-
- Title
Good and mad [electronic resource] : mainline protestant churchwomen, 1920-1980 / Margaret Bendroth.
- Imprint
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-241) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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