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More than Daughters: Women’s Experiences at Southern Baptist Colleges during the Progressive Era

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This article examines students’ experiences at Southern Baptist colleges that educated women during the Progressive era (1880–1920). Denominational leaders and school faculty attempted to recreate Christian home life on college campuses by tightly restricting students’ freedoms and behavior. This article examines female college students’ publications to better understand their views on family and home life on the college campus. Their writings indicate that students did believe that the college was like a family. However, students reinterpreted the meaning of home life and family on the college campus by reimagining the use of residential space, developing alternative hierarchical and intimate relationships on campus, and exercising more autonomy over their religious rituals.

Source: Religions

DOI: 10.3390/rel15080966

Author: Joanna Lile

Institution: Georgetown College

Language: English

Topic: Historical Education Studies Worldwide

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Gender equality

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,046