Beyond the Pulpit : Women's Rhetorical Roles in the Antebellum Religious Press.
Shaver, Lisa.
Beyond the Pulpit : Women's Rhetorical Roles in the Antebellum Religious Press. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (182 pages) - Composition, Literacy, and Culture Series ; v.163 . - Composition, Literacy, and Culture Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Looking Beyond the Pulpit -- Chapter One: Dying Well -- Chapter Two: Women's Deathbed Pulpits -- Chapter Three: Contained Inside the Ladies' Department -- Chapter Four: Stepping Outside the Ladies' Department -- Chapter Five: A Magazine of Their Own -- Epilogue: Ambiguous and Liminal Spaces -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Although women's participation helped the Methodist church to become the United States' largest denomination by the mid-nineteenth century, women's official roles diminished during that time. In Beyond the Pulpit, Lisa Shaver examines Methodist periodicals as a rhetorical space to which women turned to find, and make, self-meaning.
9780822977421
Women in the Methodist Church-United States-History-19th century.
Methodist women-Religious life-United States-History-19th century.
Methodist Church-United States-Periodicals-History-19th century.
Methodist women-Press coverage-United States-History-19th century.
Women and journalism-United States-History-19th century.
Electronic books.
BX8345
287/.608209034
Beyond the Pulpit : Women's Rhetorical Roles in the Antebellum Religious Press. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (182 pages) - Composition, Literacy, and Culture Series ; v.163 . - Composition, Literacy, and Culture Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Looking Beyond the Pulpit -- Chapter One: Dying Well -- Chapter Two: Women's Deathbed Pulpits -- Chapter Three: Contained Inside the Ladies' Department -- Chapter Four: Stepping Outside the Ladies' Department -- Chapter Five: A Magazine of Their Own -- Epilogue: Ambiguous and Liminal Spaces -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Although women's participation helped the Methodist church to become the United States' largest denomination by the mid-nineteenth century, women's official roles diminished during that time. In Beyond the Pulpit, Lisa Shaver examines Methodist periodicals as a rhetorical space to which women turned to find, and make, self-meaning.
9780822977421
Women in the Methodist Church-United States-History-19th century.
Methodist women-Religious life-United States-History-19th century.
Methodist Church-United States-Periodicals-History-19th century.
Methodist women-Press coverage-United States-History-19th century.
Women and journalism-United States-History-19th century.
Electronic books.
BX8345
287/.608209034