i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Religion -- The Feminization of American Congregationalism, 1730–1835 -- Young Women in the Second Great Awakening in New England -- Domesticity and Religion in the Antebellum Period: The Career of Phoebe Palmer -- A Women’s Awakening: Evangelical Religion and the Families of Utica, New York, 1800–1840 -- Maternity ... of the Spirit: Nuns and Domesticity in Antebellum America -- Evangelical Womanhood in the Nineteenth Century: The Role of Women in Sunday Schools -- Memoranda and Documents: The Feminization Controversy: Sexual Stereotypes and the Paradoxes of Piety in Nineteenth-Century America -- Women in the Presbyterian Church – An Historical Overview -- Religion and the New England Mill Girl: A New Perspective on an Old Theme -- “Female Laborers in the Church”: Women Preachers in the Northeastern United States, 1790–1840 -- She Hath Done What She Could: Protestant Women’s Missionary Careers in Nineteenth-Century America -- Outside the Mainstream: Women's Religion and Women Religious Leaders in Nineteenth-Century America -- “Together and in Harness”: Women’s Traditions in the Sanctified Church -- “Christian Woman, Pious Wife, Faithful Mother, Devoted Missionary”: Conflicts in Roles of American Missionary Women in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii -- The Local Parish as a Female Institution: The Experience of All Saints Episcopal Church in Frontier Minnesota -- Women’s Response to Plural Marriage -- Zenanas and Girlless Villages: The Ethnology of American Evangelical Women, 1870–1910 -- Sisters of St. Joseph: The Americanization of a French Tradition -- Catholic Women Religious and Women’s History: A Survey of the Literature -- Transitions in Judaism: The Jewish American Woman through the 1930s -- In Search of Unconventional Women: Histories of Puerto Rican Women in Religious Vocations before Mid-Century -- Catholic Laywomen in the Culture of American Catholicism in the 1950s -- Copyright Information -- Index
