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Beyond the Pulpit : Women's Rhetorical Roles in the Antebellum Religious Press.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Composition, Literacy, and Culture SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (182 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822977421
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Beyond the PulpitDDC classification:
  • 287/.608209034
LOC classification:
  • BX8345
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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