God Gave Us the Right: Conservative Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, and Orthodox Jewish Women Grapple with Feminism

by Christel Manning

Book Overview

What does it mean to be a religious conservative, particularly for women, in America today? While it appears that people are returning to conservative religion because they are fed up with the excesses of liberalism, including feminism, a closer look at the lives of religious conservatives reveals a more complex reality. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant communities, Christel Manning explores the diversity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813525993
• ISBN13: 9780813525990
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"