TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaver,Lisa
TI  - Beyond the Pulpit: Women's Rhetorical Roles in the Antebellum Religious Press
T2  - Composition, Literacy, and Culture Series
SN  - 9780822977421
AV  - BX8345 
U1  - 287/.608209034 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - PIttsburgh
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Women in the Methodist Church-United States-History-19th century
KW  - Methodist women-Religious life-United States-History-19th century
KW  - Methodist Church-United States-Periodicals-History-19th century
KW  - Methodist women-Press coverage-United States-History-19th century
KW  - Women and journalism-United States-History-19th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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