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All That Fits a Woman: Training, Southern Baptist Women for Charity and Mission, 1907-1926
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The Journal of Southern History
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November 1, 2002
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All That Fits a Woman: Training Southern Baptist Women for Charity and Mission, 1907-1926. By T. Laine Scales. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000. Pp. [xxxii], 287. $32.50, ISBN 0-86554-668-1.)
Recent statements by denominational leaders that women should withdraw from public life are reiterations of a conservatism that has characterized much of Southern Baptist history. T. Laine Scales's book is a reminder that these ideas about gender have long institutional roots. Scales argues that the Southern Baptist's Woman's Missionary Union (WMU) Training School was established to train women for service in home and foreign missions, in churches and Sunday schools, but that it functioned ...
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