Rediscovering Christianity After the Postmodern Turn
After decades of both benign and hostile neglect, feminist historians appear to be rediscovering religion as an important site in the historical construction of gender. This review of ten recent books on religion and gender in Modern Britain outlines the methodological and thematic shifts of the las...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2006
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History compass
Year: 2006, Volume: 4, Issue: 4, Pages: 698-714 |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | After decades of both benign and hostile neglect, feminist historians appear to be rediscovering religion as an important site in the historical construction of gender. This review of ten recent books on religion and gender in Modern Britain outlines the methodological and thematic shifts of the last several decades, which have steered feminist historians away from analyses of religion that emphasize victimization and oppression and toward more nuanced readings of the ways in which faith, belief, religion and spirituality informed women’s (and men’s) roles, values, self-definitions and struggles for emancipation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
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| ISSN: | 1478-0542 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: History compass
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2006.00194.x |
