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Changing gender roles in late twentieth-century America : the ordination of women in the Protestant Episcopal Church, 2003
Item — Call number MU Thesis She
Identifier: b2089491
Introduction [excerpts]
Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act gave women the legal support they needed to challenge American institutions in the 1960s....
This thesis attempts to illuminate this process through the experience of gender liberation in the Protestant Episcopal Church. In Chapter One, I explore the history of women's ordination in America and in the Episcopal Church....
This study also probes [how?] the resistance of those claiming female ordination jeopardized the ecumencical...
Dates:
2003