This book is a study of seven autobiographies by women who defied the domestic ideology of nineteenth-century America by serving as itinerant preachers. Literally and culturally homeless, all of them used their autobiographies to construct, from an array of materials, plausible identities as women and Christians in an age that found them hard to understand.
| ISBN: | 9780195139617 |
| Publication date: | 16th January 2003 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Elkin Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of the South Grammer |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Series: | Religion in America |
| Genres: |
Christianity Religious mission and Religious Conversion Autobiography: historical, political and military Gender studies: women and girls Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works History of the Americas |