Book of the Week: Ungodly Women: Gender and American Fundamentalism

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Most people realize that one of the central features of modern American fundamentalism and conservative evangelicalism is a distinctive vision of gender roles both in society at large and in the family in particular. When fundamentalists are criticized, it is often on the basis of their perceived reactionary ideas about women, sex, and gender. What many may not realize, however, is these ideas aren't simply central to fundamentalism, but were in fact key to its original formation.

Book of the Week: Ungodly Women: Gender and American Fundamentalism