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- Title
"God and a Woman": Women Abolitionists, Biblical Authority, and Social Activism.
- Authors
Bacon, Jacqueline
- Abstract
Although many abolitionist women were devout Christians, traditional antebellum Christianity opposed women's public speaking. This essay is used to analyze rhetorical strategies marshaled by female abolitionists to counter hegemonic biblical interpretatious and to persuade audiences that women's public speaking and antislavery activism did not conflict with Christian principles. This essay challenges the either/or choice between traditional Christian faith and a rhetoric of social activism and connects the discourse of female abolitionists to that of contemporary social activists (feminists and gay-rights activists) who embrace religious faith even as they challenge the prejudices of their religious traditions.
- Subjects
WOMEN abolitionists; CHRISTIANS; PUBLIC speaking for women; SOCIAL reformers; CHRISTIANITY
- Publication
Journal of Communication & Religion, 1999, Vol 22, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0894-2838
- Publication type
Article