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Disorderly women : sexual politics and evangelicalism in revolutionary New England
- Title
- Disorderly women : sexual politics and evangelicalism in revolutionary New England / Susan Juster.
- Author
- Juster, Susan.
- Publication
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1994.
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| Text | Use in library | BX6239 .J87 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 224 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Throughout most of the eighteenth century and particularly during the religious revivals of the Great Awakening, evangelical women in colonial New England participated vigorously in major church decisions, from electing pastors to disciplining backsliding members. After the Revolutionary War, however, women were excluded from political life, not only in their churches but in the new republic as well.
- Reconstructing the history of this change, Susan Juster shows how a common view of masculinity and femininity shaped both radical religion and revolutionary politics in America.
- Juster compares contemporary accounts of Baptist women and men who voice their conversion experiences, theological opinions, and preoccupation with personal conflicts and pastoral controversies. At times, the ardent revivalist message of spiritual individualism appeared to sanction sexual anarchy.
- According to one contemporary, the revival attempted "to make all things common, wives as well as goods." The place of women at the center of evangelical life in the mid-eighteenth century, Juster finds, reflected the extent to which evangelical religion itself was perceived as "feminine" - emotional, sensual, and ultimately marginal.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. "Breaking" the Sabbath: The Evangelical Challenge in the Great Awakening -- 2. "All Things Are Become New": The Conversion Experience -- 3. "To Watch Over Each Other\u0027s Conversation": Church Discipline -- 4. "To Grow Up into a State of Manhood": The Sexual Politics of Evangelicalism in Revolutionary America -- 5. "The Disorder of Women": The Feminization of Sin, 1780-1830 -- 6. "In a Different Voice": Postrevolutionary Conversion Narratives.
- ISBN
- 0801427320
- 0801430240
- LCCN
- 94191656
- OCLC
- ocm30898639
- SCSB-3182056
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries