id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 3t945q49n8j Kristin Kobes Du Mez The Forgotten Woman's Bible: Katharine Bushnell, Lee Anna Starr, Madeline Southard, and the Construction of a Woman-Centered Protestantism in America, 1870-1930 2004 .txt text/plain 293 9 21 As participants in social reform movements particularly in temperance work and in the social purity movement they had become convinced that faulty religious teachings were at the root of modern social problems, and they turned to theology to expose and subvert what they perceived as the centuries-long manipulation of the faith by male translators and theologians. This dissertation brings together the study of Protestantism and feminism in modern American history, investigating the crucial transitional period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. cache/3t945q49n8j.txt txt/3t945q49n8j.txt