Women and the Anglican Church Congress 1861-1938

This book covers new ground in its focus on the Anglican Church congresses 1861-1938 as a public space in which the views of notable women were widely disseminated. It celebrates the contribution made by women to public life and discourse on womanhood as platform speakers, and commemorates the presence of the large numbers of women who joined congresses as audience members. Original research draws on extensive primary sources from official records, diaries and the press to capture women''s views and voices and to evoke congress as a communicative social space and a window into topical affairs Women and the Anglican Church Congress 1861-1938 examines the roles of women in the Church and reflects on how women with a sense of vocation negotiated contemporary attitudes to their positions and spirituality. The book also explores how women''s secular aspirations towards citizenship in the context of poverty, work, temperance, eugenics, class and suffrage played out at congress.>

Préface
Explores women's negotiations of their 'place' and horizons of opportunity in religion, education, public and professional life via the forum of the Anglican Church Congress.

Auteur

Sue Anderson-Faithful is Senior Lecturer in Education and Convenor of the Centre for the History of Women's Education at the University of Winchester, UK.

Catherine Holloway is Lecturer in Education and Childhood Studies at the University of Winchester, UK.

Contenu

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Tables and Illustrations
Introduction: Congress: A Space for Women

1. Visiting the Church Congress
2. Women in the Anglican Church: Deaconesses, Sisters, Missionaries, and Philanthropy
3. The Mothers' Union and the Girls' Friendly Society
4. Networks: Organisations, Politics, Empire and Suffrage
5. Widening Horizons in Education and Leisure
6. Public Service and the World of Work
7. Spiritual and Theological Aspirations and the Latter Years of Congress
8. Conclusion: Women, Congress, Space, Place and Agency
   Appendices
   Primary Sources
   Bibliography
   Index