More than a generation after the rise of women's history alongside the feminist movement, it is still difficult, observes Catherine Brekus, to locate women in h
American Catholic women rarely surface as protagonists in histories of the United States. Offering a new perspective, Kathleen Sprows Cummings places Catholic w
In a revealing examination of the complex interrelationship of religion, social forces, and organizational structure, Ordaining Women draws examples and data fr
Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh traces a
The Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History provides an affordable and accessible reference to over 750 outstanding individual women and wom
