Religion and the New England Mill Girl: A New Perspective on an Old Theme

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Contents v
3. Series Preface ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Religion
6. The Feminization of American Congregationalism, 1730–1835 3
7. Young Women in the Second Great Awakening in New England 20
8. Domesticity and Religion in the Antebellum Period: The Career of Phoebe Palmer 35
9. A Women’s Awakening: Evangelical Religion and the Families of Utica, New York, 1800–1840 52
10. Maternity ... of the Spirit: Nuns and Domesticity in Antebellum America 74
11. Evangelical Womanhood in the Nineteenth Century: The Role of Women in Sunday Schools 94
12. Memoranda and Documents: The Feminization Controversy: Sexual Stereotypes and the Paradoxes of Piety in Nineteenth-Century America 113
13. Women in the Presbyterian Church – An Historical Overview 124
14. Religion and the New England Mill Girl: A New Perspective on an Old Theme 141
15. “Female Laborers in the Church”: Women Preachers in the Northeastern United States, 1790–1840 166
16. She Hath Done What She Could: Protestant Women’s Missionary Careers in Nineteenth-Century America 192
17. Outside the Mainstream: Women's Religion and Women Religious Leaders in Nineteenth-Century America 207
18. “Together and in Harness”: Women’s Traditions in the Sanctified Church 232
19. “Christian Woman, Pious Wife, Faithful Mother, Devoted Missionary”: Conflicts in Roles of American Missionary Women in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii 254
20. The Local Parish as a Female Institution: The Experience of All Saints Episcopal Church in Frontier Minnesota 286
21. Women’s Response to Plural Marriage 302
22. Zenanas and Girlless Villages: The Ethnology of American Evangelical Women, 1870–1910 316
23. Sisters of St. Joseph: The Americanization of a French Tradition 341
24. Catholic Women Religious and Women’s History: A Survey of the Literature 373
25. Transitions in Judaism: The Jewish American Woman through the 1930s 386
26. In Search of Unconventional Women: Histories of Puerto Rican Women in Religious Vocations before Mid-Century 408
27. Catholic Laywomen in the Culture of American Catholicism in the 1950s 425
28. Copyright Information 441
29. Index 445