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This second edition traces women's affilation with Presbyterianism in the United States for more than two centuries-from 1789 when women were silent in the church to the present, where women serve equally in the pulpits, sessions, and courts of the church.

Table of Contents

Preface
The Lay Participation of Women
Pious Females: Leading to the Church Woman's Decade, 1789-1880
Woman's Boards: Developing a Bureaucracy, 1880-1958
Advocates for Continuity and Change: Evolving Women's Organizations, 1958-1994
Laywomen in Church Professions: Serving the Denomination, 19th and 20th Centuries
The Ordination of Women
Shall Women Speak? Questioning Women's Roles, 1789-1920
Unrest in the Church: Securing Ordination Rights, 1920-1958
Presbyterian Clergywomen: Entering a New Frontier, 1958-1994
Epilogue: Considering the 21st Century
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author

LOIS A. BOYD is Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Formerly, she served as director and editor of Trinity University Press. She is the author of a booklength checklist Religion in Contemporary Fiction and co-author of Presbyterians and Pensions: A History of the Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

R. DOUGLAS BRACKENRIDGE is Professor of Religion at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He has published widely in the field of American religious history with a special interest in Presbyterian institutional history and biography. His most recent book with Lois A. Boyd is Presbyterians and Pensions: A History of the Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).