Beyond the Pulpit : Women's Rhetorical Roles in the Antebellum Religious Press.
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- computer
- online resource
- 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
- 287/.608209034
- BX8345
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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