{"product_id":"christian-imperial-feminism-white-protestant-women-and-the-consecration-of-empire-hardback-9781479825516","title":"Christian Imperial Feminism; White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire (Hardback) 9781479825516","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eChristian Imperial Feminism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWhite Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGale L. Kenny (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479825516\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 January 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 4 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.592 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThrough close examinations of a wide range of practices from mission study to pageants to committee meetings to worship services, \u003ci\u003eChristian Imperial Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the ways that Protestant women embraced a Christian cosmopolitanism that simultaneously embraced diversity and sought to manage it…. A thoughtful exploration of Protestant churchwomen as full people with good intentions and deep flaws who took action in a world that they thought they understood far better than they actually did, with effects that they could not always predict. - Emily Conroy Krutz, Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic Expertly written…. Will be of most interest to historians, particularly those working on missions, Christian women, and US Christianity in the twentieth century. - Hillary Kaell, author of Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage [\u003ci\u003eChristian Imperial Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e] expands feminist theory, which often focuses on secular feminism, by showing how Christian feminism shaped global women's rights movements. With its very detailed analysis and academic focus, the main audience for the book includes historians and scholars of religion, feminism and gender studies, postcolonial studies, and American studies, but the book, especially chapters four and five, could be of great interest to those in the field of social work. (Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIlluminates how white American Protestant women embraced a racially specific version of social\u003cbr\u003e inclusiveness that centered themselves as the norm\u003cbr\u003e Amidst the global instability of the early twentieth century, white Christian American women embraced\u003cbr\u003e the idea of an \"empire of Christ\" that was racially diverse, but which they believed they were uniquely\u003cbr\u003e qualified to manage. America's burgeoning power, combined with women's rising roles within the\u003cbr\u003e church, led to white Protestant women adopting a feminism rooted in religion and imperialism.\u003cbr\u003e Gale L. Kenny examines this Christian imperial feminism from the women's missionary movement to\u003cbr\u003e create a Christian world order. She shows that this Christian imperial feminism marked a break from an\u003cbr\u003e earlier Protestant world view that focused on moral and racial purity and in which interactions among\u003cbr\u003e races were inconceivable. This new approach actually prioritized issues like civil rights and racial\u003cbr\u003e integration, as well as the uplift of women, though the racially diverse world Christianity it aspired to\u003cbr\u003e was still to be rigidly hierarchically ordered, with white women retaining a privileged place as guardians.\u003cbr\u003e In exposing these dynamics, this book departs from recent scholarship on white evangelical nationalism\u003cbr\u003e to focus on the racial politics of white religious liberalism. Christian Imperial Feminism adds a necessary\u003cbr\u003e layer to our understanding of religion, gender, and empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591096856856,"sku":"9781479825516","price":54.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/christian-imperial-feminism-white-protestant-women-and-the-consecration-of-empire-hardback-9781479825516","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}