HX 8351, Women in 19th and 20th Century American Christianity

Reading List

American Tract Society, The Young Lady's Guide.

Bailey, Rufus, Daughters at school instructed in a series of letters. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Education, 1857.

Beecher, Catharine, Religious Training of Children in the School, the Family, and the Church.

Booth, Catharine, Female Ministry; or, Woman's Right to Preach the Gospel. London: Morgan & Chase, 1859.

Cott, Nancy. The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

Eddy, Daniel, The Young Woman's Friend. Boston: Wentworth, 1857.

Hale, Sarah. "Editor's Table" Godey's Lady's Book: excerpts on Thanksgiving and "Genius has no sex".

Harris, Elizabeth Johnson. Life Story and "In These Days." MS at Special Collections Library of Duke University.

Harper, Frances, "Save the Boys" Union Signal 6 December 1883, 2.

Hobbs, June Hadden. "I Sing for I Cannot Be Silent": The Feminization of American Hymnody, 1870-1920. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.

Holt, Mrs. Wilson, 1878 Presidential Address to Minnesota WCTU.

Keller, Rosemary Skinner, Louise Queen, Hilah F. Thomas, eds. Women in New Worlds: Historical Perspectives on the Wesleyan Tradition, Volume 2. Nashville: Abingdon, 1982. Cited as WNW2.

Kenschaft, Lori Home Page, variety of essays on gender, religion, and society.

Lane, Haddie, "Woman's Rights" Godey's Lady's Book April 1850.

Lears, T. J. Jackson. No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture 1880-1920. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981.

Lee, Jarena, Religious experience and journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee...., 1836.

Liberty Harbor Foursquare Church, http://www.libertyharbor.org/.

McCrossen, Alexis. Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.

McDannell, Colleen. The Christian Home in Victorian America, 1840-1900. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.

Mead, Sidney. The Lively Experiment: The Shaping of Christianity in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.

"A Mother," Maternal Love, or letters addresses to a companion of her childhood. New York: J. S. Taylor, 1838.

Phillips, S. The Christian home, as it is in the sphere of nature and the church. Springfield: G. Bill, 1865.

Richey, Russell E., Kenneth E. Rowe, Jean Miller Schmidt, eds. Perspectives on American Methodism: Interpretive Essays Nashville: Kingswood, 1993. Cited as Perspectives.

Robertson, Anna. "Aimee Semple McPherson".

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin, or, Life Among the Lowly. (1852) with an introduction by Ann Douglas. New York: Penguin, 1986.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Woman in Sacred History.

Sunderland, Byron, Discourse to young ladies. Washington: C. Wendell, 1857.

Thomas, Hilah and Rosemary Skinner Keller, eds. Women in New Worlds: Historical Perspectives on the Wesleyan Tradition, Volume 1. Nashville: Abingdon, 1981. Cited asWNW1.

Truth, Sojourner. Selection of essays at Public Broadcasting System, "American Experience - The Time of the Lincolns."

Welter, Barbara. Dimity Convictions: The American Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1976.

You will also need a hymnal. Texts and numbers will be based on the United Methodist Hymnal.

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