Willing women and the rise of convents in nineteenth-century England

McAdam, Gloria

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“…6 In this new gendered world, British historian Glenda McAdam contends, any claim that religion incorporated a potential for an increase in female power was always accompanied by a male requirement to regulate such power. 7 As her study of the growth of convents in nineteenth-century England shows, the elevation of the Virgin and the promotion of female religious orders offered a means of containing such fears of feminization within Catholicism. Evangelical Protestantism, however, with its suspicion of such popish practices, and its emphasis on the centrality of the individual call, faced greater challenges.…”

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In These Days of Female Evangelists and Hallelujah Lasses: Women Preachers and the Redefinition of Gender Roles in the Churches in Late Nineteenth‐Century Australia

Swain

2002

Journal of Religious History

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The presence of two women amongst the seventeen international revivalists who visited Australia in the period 1863 and 1912 has been seen as unremarkable by religious historians, or read as evidence that the Christian churches were outside, or perhaps even in advance of, the nineteenth‐century struggle for women’s rights. However, only representations of their performance remain, representations which, this article argues, attempted to normalize both their presence and their message. A more critical reading of contemporary reports would suggest that the way in which female evangelists were reported should be seen as intrinsic to the attempt by church leaders to contain and control women’s expanding role. The success of their endeavours rendered female evangelists largely invisible but the lengths to which they went to discount the challenge the female evangelists mounted to conventional constructions of gender, provide evidence of its power.

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In These Days of Female Evangelists and Hallelujah Lasses: Women Preachers and the Redefinition of Gender Roles in the Churches in Late Nineteenth‐Century Australia

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2002

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Verdi, Opera, Women

Rutherford

2013

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Verdi's operas - composed between 1839 and 1893 - portray a striking diversity of female protagonists: warrior women and peacemakers, virgins and courtesans, princesses and slaves, witches and gypsies, mothers and daughters, erring and idealised wives, and, last of all, a feisty quartet of Tudor townswomen in Verdi's final opera, Falstaff. Yet what meanings did the impassioned crises and dilemmas of these characters hold for the nineteenth-century female spectator, especially during such a turbulent span in the history of the Italian peninsula? How was opera shaped by society - and was society similarly influenced by opera? Contextualising Verdi's female roles within aspects of women's social, cultural and political history, Susan Rutherford explores the interface between the reality of the spectators' lives and the imaginary of the fictional world before them on the operatic stage.

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Verdi, Opera, Women

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Willing women and the rise of convents in nineteenth-century England

Cited by 13 publications

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In These Days of Female Evangelists and Hallelujah Lasses: Women Preachers and the Redefinition of Gender Roles in the Churches in Late Nineteenth‐Century Australia

In These Days of Female Evangelists and Hallelujah Lasses: Women Preachers and the Redefinition of Gender Roles in the Churches in Late Nineteenth‐Century Australia

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