Christabel Pankhurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition
Christabel Pankhurst, one of the leading champions of women's suffrage in Britain, entered the evangelical world after the first world war as a preacher of the second coming. Larsen shows that the two causes, far from being automatically antagonistic, could be complementary.

Christabel Pankhurst was arguably the most influential member of her famous family in the struggle to win the vote for women in the years before the First World War. Paradoxically, she has also been the most neglected subsequentlyby historians. Part of the reason for this may be that, in the years after women's suffrage had been achieved in 1918, she turned her energies to Christian fundamentalism and carved out a new career as a writer of best-selling evangelical books and as a high-profile speaker on the fundamentalist preaching circuit, particularly in the United States. In this important work Tim Larsen provides the first full account of this part of Christabel Pankhurst's life. He thus offers both a highly original contribution to Christabel Pankhurst's biography and also a fascinating commentary on the relationship between fundamentalism and feminism. His book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the Pankhursts, in the history of the women's movement, or in fundamentalism in Britain and North America.

TIMOTHY LARSEN is Associate Professor of Theology, Wheaton College, USA.
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Christabel Pankhurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition
Christabel Pankhurst, one of the leading champions of women's suffrage in Britain, entered the evangelical world after the first world war as a preacher of the second coming. Larsen shows that the two causes, far from being automatically antagonistic, could be complementary.

Christabel Pankhurst was arguably the most influential member of her famous family in the struggle to win the vote for women in the years before the First World War. Paradoxically, she has also been the most neglected subsequentlyby historians. Part of the reason for this may be that, in the years after women's suffrage had been achieved in 1918, she turned her energies to Christian fundamentalism and carved out a new career as a writer of best-selling evangelical books and as a high-profile speaker on the fundamentalist preaching circuit, particularly in the United States. In this important work Tim Larsen provides the first full account of this part of Christabel Pankhurst's life. He thus offers both a highly original contribution to Christabel Pankhurst's biography and also a fascinating commentary on the relationship between fundamentalism and feminism. His book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the Pankhursts, in the history of the women's movement, or in fundamentalism in Britain and North America.

TIMOTHY LARSEN is Associate Professor of Theology, Wheaton College, USA.
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Christabel Pankhurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition

Christabel Pankhurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition

by Timothy Larsen
Christabel Pankhurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition

Christabel Pankhurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition

by Timothy Larsen

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Christabel Pankhurst, one of the leading champions of women's suffrage in Britain, entered the evangelical world after the first world war as a preacher of the second coming. Larsen shows that the two causes, far from being automatically antagonistic, could be complementary.

Christabel Pankhurst was arguably the most influential member of her famous family in the struggle to win the vote for women in the years before the First World War. Paradoxically, she has also been the most neglected subsequentlyby historians. Part of the reason for this may be that, in the years after women's suffrage had been achieved in 1918, she turned her energies to Christian fundamentalism and carved out a new career as a writer of best-selling evangelical books and as a high-profile speaker on the fundamentalist preaching circuit, particularly in the United States. In this important work Tim Larsen provides the first full account of this part of Christabel Pankhurst's life. He thus offers both a highly original contribution to Christabel Pankhurst's biography and also a fascinating commentary on the relationship between fundamentalism and feminism. His book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the Pankhursts, in the history of the women's movement, or in fundamentalism in Britain and North America.

TIMOTHY LARSEN is Associate Professor of Theology, Wheaton College, USA.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780851159058
Publisher: BOYDELL & BREWER INC
Publication date: 12/05/2002
Series: ISSN , #4
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 168
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Prefacevii
1.Christian Ministry1
2.Eschatology and Theology29
3.Current Events50
4.Doom and Hope69
5.The Fundamentalist Circuit88
6.Fundamentalism and Feminism in Society103
7.Fundamentalism and Feminism in the Church121
Epilogue: Forgetting and Remembering139
Works Cited143
Index150
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