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Author:   Christopher H. Evans (Professor of the History of Christianity, Professor of the History of Christianity, Boston University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.70cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 16.50cm
Weight:   0.712kg
ISBN:  

9780190914073

ISBN 10:   0190914076
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   15 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Dedication Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Illustrations Introduction Part I Dreams, 1839-1879 Chapter One: ""A Romping Girl"" Chapter Two: ""What a Queer Girl Frank Willard Is!"" Chapter Three: ""I Shall be of Use to the World"" Chapter Four: ""Tell Every Body to Be Good"" Chapter Five: ""Moral Horticulture"" Chapter Six: ""Wanderer on the Face of the Earth"" Chapter Seven: ""Home Protection"" Chapter Eight: ""How to Win"" Part II Power, 1880-1889 Chapter Nine: ""Agitate, Educate, Organize"" Chapter Ten: ""Such Chivalry toward Women"" Chapter Eleven: ""Gospel Politics"" Chapter Twelve: White Shield Women Chapter Thirteen: New Testament Ethics Chapter Fourteen: ""This is My Busy Day"" Chapter Fifteen: ""I Should have loved ... to be a Gospel Preacher"" Chapter Sixteen: ""Dawn of Woman's Day"" Chapter Seventeen: ""Gospel Socialism"" Part III Visions, 1890-1898 Chapter Eighteen: ""Our House Beautiful"" Chapter Nineteen: ""Dearest Cossie"" Chapter Twenty: ""Queen Frances"" Chapter Twenty-One: ""My Cares are too Heavy"" Chapter Twenty-Two: ""You Know ... of the Difficulty in which I have been Placed by this Unjust Controversy"" Chapter Twenty-Three: ""What Ails Miss Willard?"" Chapter Twenty-Four: ""How Beautiful it is to be with God"" Conclusion: ""Had Vision ... in which a Woman Becomes President of the United States"" Notes Bibliography Index"

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With prodigious research and compelling prose, Christopher Evans brings to life one of the most consequential activists in the final decades of the nineteenth century. During this age of the New Woman and the Social Gospel, Frances Willard combined her temperance work with suffrage to unleash a formidable social reform movement. This superb and comprehensive biography should restore Willard to her rightful place as one of the most influential religious leaders in American history. * Randall Balmer, John Phillips Professor in Religion, Dartmouth College * Chris Evans's richly detailed, page-turning account of the 'do everything' woman corrects a huge historical oversight. Smart, courageous, and charismatic, Willard was one of the most celebrated Americans of her time-and yet, surprisingly, she is barely known today. Evans ably demonstrates the importance of this remarkable religious thinker and canny organizer, who led a generation of women out of kitchens and parlors into forceful public activism. * Margaret Bendroth, historian of American religion and former director of the Congregational Library and Archives in Boston * During an era in which women were barred from formal leadership in church and state alike, Frances Willard was a giant in the American public square. In this definitive biography, Evans reveals how Willard became one of the Gilded Age's most formidable reformers, defying and transforming expectations of the good Christian woman along the way. Underscoring both the breathtaking ambition and profound limitations of Willard's moral vision, Evans recovers a too-often forgotten past * one that matters for our future. *

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Christopher H. Evans is Professor of the History of Christianity and Methodist Studies at Boston University School of Theology. One of the leading scholars of the social gospel movement, he has written numerous books and articles on American religion and the history of Christianity. His books include The Kingdom is Always but Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch, which received an Award of Merit from Christianity Today in 2005.

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