Religion 440-001 - Studies in American Religion: Presence or Absence? Women in American Religious History
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Specific Articles
Clark, Elizabeth A., Women, Gender, and the Study of Christian History
Church History, 70, 3 (Sep. 2001), 395-426.
Foster, Susan Leigh, Choreographies of Protest
Theatre Journal, 55, 3 (October 2003): 395-412.
McDannell, Colleen, "The Devil Was the First Protestant": Gender and Intolerance in Irish Catholic Fiction
U. S. Catholic Historian, 8, 1/2 (Winter-Spring, 1989), 51-65.
Scott, Joan W., The Evidence of Experience
Critical Inquiry, 17, 4 (Summer 1991), 773-797.
Tilly, Louise A., Gender, Women's History, and Social History
Social Science History, 13, 4 (Winter 1989): 439-462.
Welter, Barbara, The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860
American Quarterly, 18, 2, part 1 (Summer 1966), 151-174.
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Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America
Davis Reference BL458 .E52 2006 (3 vols.)
Encyclopedia of American Women and Religion
Davis Reference BL2525 .B45 1998
Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History
Davis Reference BL2525 .W44 2008
Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed.
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