This Is Our Message - Women''s Leadership in the New Christian Right

Evangelical women have been national leaders in the New Christian Right since its ascendancy in the 1970s. This book focuses on four women - Marabel Morgan, Anita Bryant, Beverly LaHaye, and Tammy Faye Bakker - and traces their legacies in the twenty-first century careers of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Marabel Morgan Defines "The Total Woman"


• Chapter 2: Anita Bryant Leads a Moral Crusade


• Chapter 3: Beverly LaHaye Defies Feminism


• Chapter 4: Tammy Faye Bakker Becomes a Gay Icon


• Chapter 5: Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann Vie for the White House


• Conclusion


• Notes


• Index

About the author

Emily Suzanne Johnson is an assistant professor of history at Ball State University in Muncie, IN, where she teaches courses in American history and histories of gender and sexuality.

Summary

Evangelical women have been national leaders in the New Christian Right since its ascendancy in the 1970s. This book focuses on four women - Marabel Morgan, Anita Bryant, Beverly LaHaye, and Tammy Faye Bakker - and traces their legacies in the twenty-first century careers of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann.

Additional text

Evangelical readers will be especially appreciative of Johnson's awareness of the variety of theological nuance that exists among Protestant Christian women.

Product details

• Authors: Emily S. Johnson, Emily S. (Lecturer in Religious Studies Johnson, Emily Suzanne Johnson, Emily Suzanne (Lecturer in Religious Stud Johnson, Emily Suzanne (Lecturer in Religious Studies Johnson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9780190618933
• ISBN: 978-0-19-061893-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Religion & politics, United States of America, USA, Religion and Politics, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Other Nonconformist & Evangelical Churches, Other Nonconformist and Evangelical Churches