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Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire

Contributor(s): Kenny, Gale L (Author)

ISBN: 9781479825516

Publisher: New York University Press

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Pub Date: February 6, 2024

Dewey: 248.8430973

LCCN: 2023005980

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.81" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 1.24 lbs) 288 pages

Series: North American Religions

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Description: "Christian Imperial Feminism examines how ecumenical Protestant women's practices of pageants, prayer, and political activism sustained the Christian imperial feminism of the White women's missionary movement within an emerging Protestant-inflected postwar racial liberalism"--

Brief description: Gale L. Kenny is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Barnard College. She is the author of Contentious Liberties: American Abolitionists in Post-emancipation Jamaica, 1837-1866.

Review Quotes: "Kenny's book joins the freshest voices of the scholarly conversation reconsidering the intersections of religion and empire in the early decades of the twentieth century."-- "The Journal of Presbyterian History"

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