Evangelical Christian Women: War Stories in the Gender Battles

Evangelical Christian Women draws on two years of ethnographic research nationwide to shed new light on the gender conflict faced by women in evangelical Christianity. Julie Ingersoll goes beyond previous attempts to find avenues of empowerment for fundamentalist women to offer a more nuanced look at the challenges they face when they occupy positions of leadership which violate traditional gender norms. She looks where other studies do not--at women who, while remaining entrenched in and committed to evangelical Christianity, are also resisting accepted gender roles.
Evangelical Christian Women offers a look at conservative women who challenge gender norms within their religious traditions, the fallout they experience as part of the ensuing conflict, and the significance of the conflict over gender for the development and character of culture. In the face of a growing number of scholarly studies of conservative religious women that argue that submission is somehow "really" empowerment, this book seeks to get at the other side of the story; to document and explore the experiences of the women caught in the middle of the conservative Christian culture war over gender.

Author: Julie Ingersoll
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 12/01/2003
Pages: 181
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.48h x 6.72w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780814737705

Review Citation(s):
Christianity Today 04/01/2004 pg. 102
Choice 07/01/2004 pg. 2062
Women's Review of Books 12/01/2004 pg. 6

About the Author
Ingersoll, Julie: - Julie Ingersoll is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Florida, Jacksonville.