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Gender and the Social Gospel Gender and the Social Gospel Edited by Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards and Carolyn De Swarte Gifford UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS URBANA AND CHICAGO CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Foreword Christopher H. Evans xi Introduction: Restoring Women and Reclaiming Gender in Social Gospel Studies Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards and Carolyn De Swarte Gifford 1 PART i: SETTING THE ISSUES 1. "The Woman's Cause Is Man's"? Frances Willard and the Social Gospel Carolyn De Swarte Gifford 21 2. Women and Social Betterment in the Social Gospel Work of Josiah Strong Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards 35 3. More Than Maternal Feminists and Good Samaritans: Women and the Social Gospel in Canada Eleanor J. Stebner 53 PART 2: PERSPECTIVES ON A SOCIAL GOSPEL FAMILY: THE RAUSCHENBUSCHES 4. Walter Rauschenbusch and "The Woman Movement": A Gender Analysis Janet Forsythe Fishburn 71 5. The Social Dimensions of Foreign Missions: Emma Rauschenbusch Clough and Social Gospel Ideology Paul William Harris 87 PART 3: ORGANIZATION AND PROFESSIONALIZATION OF WOMEN'S SOCIAL GOSPEL WORK 6. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the Pacific Northwest: A Different Side of the Social Gospel Dale E. Soden 103 7. Shaping a Civic Profession: Mary Richmond, the Social Gospel, and Social Work Elizabeth N. Agnew 116 PART 4: WOMEN AND SOCIAL GOSPEL THEOLOGY 8. Dorothy Day and the Social Gospel Movement: Different Theologies, Common Concerns Robert Trawick 139 9. Jane Addams, Walter Rauschenbusch, and Dorothy Day: A Comparative Study of Settlement Theology R. A. R. Edwards 150 10. The Ecumenical Woman's Missionary Movement: Helen Barrett Montgomery and The Baptist, 1920—30 Kendal P. Mobley 167 PART 5: EXPANDING THE CONVENTIONAL BOUNDARIES OF THE SOCIAL GOSPEL MOVEMENT 11. Gender and the Social Gospel Novel Susan Hill Lindley 185 12. True to Our God: African American Women as Christian Activists in Rochester, New York Ingrid Overacker 202 13. In the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.: The Social Gospel of Faye Wattleton and Marian Wright Edelman Michael Dwayne Blackwell 217 Contributors 231 Index 233.
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