Women in Religion
Here is a selection of published historical
secondary sources on single women in religion, ranging
from medieval to 20th century Europe and North America.
The focus here is on studies that consider singleness
or single women directly. Obviously, it is far from
exhaustive, and additions are greatly appreciated
- please e-mail the compiler at arachne
[at] medusanet.ca and I'll include them.
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Anderson, Lavina Fielding. "Ministering Angels:
Single Women in Mormon Society." Dialogue
16, no. 3 (1983): 59-72.
Angle, Siddika Patricia. "Angel to Apostle: Models of Spirituality for Single Catholic Laywomen in the United States, 1866-1965." PhD Thesis, Graduate Theological Union [US], 1995.
Barrus, Katherine DeMartini. "Putting Her Hand to the Plough': Nuns and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century England." PhD Thesis, State University of New York, Albany [US], 1999.
Coops, P. Lorraine. "Living by Faith: Maritime Baptist Single Women Missionaries in India, 1880-1930." PhD Thesis, Queen's University [Canada], 1997.
Graybill, Beth E. ""Finding My Place as a Lady Missionary":
Mennonite Women Missionaries to Puerto Rico, 1945-1960."
Journal of Mennonite Studies [Canada] 17
(1999): 152-173.
Hunt, Nancy Rose. "'Single Ladies on the Congo':
Protestant Missionary Tensions and Voices." Women's
Studies International Forum 13, no. 4 (1990):
395-403.
Isherwood, John Stuart. "An Analysis of the
Role of Single Women in the Work of the Church Missinary
Society, 1804-1904 in West Africa, India and China."
MA Thesis, University of Manchester, 1979.
Jalagin, Seija. "The Lady Missionary. A New Woman in Disguise." In Erobring og overskridelse. De nye kvinnene inntar verden 1870-1940, eds. Tone Hellesund & Inger Marie Okkenhaug. Unipub forlag, Oslo 2003.
Karras, Ruth M. "Holy Harlots: Prostitute Saints
in Medieval Legend." Journal of the History of
Sexuality 1, no. 1 (1990): 3-32.
Lee, Janet. "Between Subordination and She-Tiger:
Social Constructions of White Femininity in the Lives
of Single, Protestant Missionaries in China, 1905-1930."
Women's Studies International Forum 19, no.
6 (1996): 621-32.
Liebowitz, Ruth P. "Virgins in the Service of
Christ: The Dispute over an Active Apostolate for
Women During the counter Reformation." In Women
of Spirit, eds. R. Ruether and E. McLaughlin. New
York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.
McNamara, Jo Ann. A New Song: Celibate Women
in the First Three Christian Centuries. New York:
Institute for Research in History: Haworth Press,
1983.
___. Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two
Millennia. Cambridge [Mass.]: Harvard University
Press, 1996.
Miller, Elizabeth J. "Ab [American Baptist] Women's
Gains and Losses Three Decades after the Integration
of the Mission Societies." American Baptist Quarterly
20, no. 3 (2001): 227-237.
Robert, Dana L. "The Influence of American Missionary
Women on the World Back Home." Religion and American
Culture 12, no. 1 (2002): 59-89.
Smaby, Beverly Prior. "Forming the Single Sisters'
Choir in Bethlehem." Transactions of the Moravian
Historical Society 28 (1994): 1-14.
Wogan-Browne, J. "Authorized Virgins: Saints Lives and the Literary Culture of Women in England C. 1150 - C. 1300." Ph.D. Thesis, University of Liverpool [UK], 2000.
Worcester, Thomas. ""Neither Married nor Cloistered":
Blessed Isabelle in Catholic Reformation France."
Sixteenth Century Journal 30, no. 2 (1999):
457-72.
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