Feminization Revisited: Protestantism and Gender at the Turn of the Century
Author(s)
Taves, Ann
Abstract
The main argument of this chapter is that historians have been guilty of “descriptive reduction”, and of uncritically accepting into their sources’ descriptive reductions of others. The author’s aim is to avoid both mistakes and, through “peeling off” successive layers of descriptive reductions, reconstruct some of the contending views of gender and Protestantism operative at the turn of the century.
