Publication

2000 - Mercer University Press, Macon, Ga, Georgia

Language

English

Word Count

41,250 words, Guess

Page Count

165 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100865547114
  • ISBN-139780865547117
  • Goodreads1756516
  • Library of Congress Control Number00712398
  • OCLC Control Number45662882
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780865547117
  • Open LibraryOL6901531M

Classifications

  • DDC277.3/0821/082
  • LCCBV639.W7 D37 2000
  • LCCBV639.W7D37 2000

Description

As regards both academic historians and popular understandings 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. Betty A. DeBerg's groundbreaking study fills 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. Unlike interpreters such as George Marsden -- who has seen the contemporary Religious Right's concerns over feminism, abortion, and the breakdown of the family as recent developments -- DeBerg convincingly argues that these concerns were central in the "first wave of American fundamentalism." - Back cover.

Description

As regards both academic historians and popular understandings 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. Betty A. DeBerg's groundbreaking study fills 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. Unlike interpreters such as George Marsden -- who has seen the contemporary Religious Right's concerns over feminism, abortion, and the breakdown of the family as recent developments -- DeBerg convincingly argues that these concerns were central in the "first wave of American fundamentalism."--Back cover.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Ungodly women: gender and the first wave of American fundamentalismPaperbackMercer University Press2000-01-01

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