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Book SynopsisJuster shows how a common view of masculinity and femininity shaped both radical religious and revolutionary politics in post-revolutionary America.
Trade ReviewA groundbreaking book that should appeal to both popular and scholarly audiences. Because Juster is such a clear and forceful writer, her book is a pleasure to read.
* Christian Century *
Susan Juster's valuable book traces the emergence and collapse of gender equality among New England Baptists from the mid-eighteenth century Great Awakening into the Age of Revolution. It also recounts evangelical women's brave but ill-fated attempts to preserve hard-won freedoms as the Brethren moved to portray them... as untrustworthy, irrational sinners to be feared and controlled by men.... A dazzling analysis of the operations of gender within evangelical religious experiences.
* Women's Review of Books *
Cogently argued and wonderfully written, Disorderly Women is an insightful and inspiring work on gender and religion in Revolutionary New England.
* William and Mary Quarterly *
Juster examines the changing role of Baptist women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England. At first essentially equal to men in church governance and in the right to speak in church, women were gradually excluded from power in Baptist churches after the Revolution. As the Baptist church adopted a more patriarchal model of church organization, women were not only marginalized and silenced but associated because of gender with several serious sins, including sexual misconduct, lying, and slander.
* Library Journal *
