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: "Through close examinations of a wide range of practices from mission study to pageants to committee meetings to worship services, Christian Imperial Feminism 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