Sunday, January 11, 2004

8:30–10:30 a.m.

American Society of Church History Session 25
The Rhetoric of Gender and the (Im)Possibilities of Reform

Hilton, Independence Room

Chair: Michael Kazin, Georgetown University
Papers:

The Ballot or the Bottle: Black Manliness and Temperance Reform in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 1884–90
Matt J. Harper, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Mothers of the World Unite: Frances Willard’s Construction of Gender and Her Vision for Reform
Sarah E. Johnson, Duke University

Maud Ballington Booth: The Little Mother and Her Boys in Prison
Jennifer Graber, Duke University

Comment: Diane Winston, Program Officer in Religion, Pew Charitable Trusts