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A groundbreaking book that should appeal to both popular and scholarly audiences. Because Juster is such a clear and forceful writer, her book is a pleasure to read. * Christian Century * Susan Juster's valuable book traces the emergence and collapse of gender equality among New England Baptists from the mid-eighteenth century Great Awakening into the Age of Revolution. It also recounts evangelical women's brave but ill-fated attempts to preserve hard-won freedoms as the Brethren moved to portray them... as untrustworthy, irrational sinners to be feared and controlled by men.... A dazzling analysis of the operations of gender within evangelical religious experiences. * Women's Review of Books * Cogently argued and wonderfully written, Disorderly Women is an insightful and inspiring work on gender and religion in Revolutionary New England. * William and Mary Quarterly * Juster examines the changing role of Baptist women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England. At first essentially equal to men in church governance and in the right to speak in church, women were gradually excluded from power in Baptist churches after the Revolution. As the Baptist church adopted a more patriarchal model of church organization, women were not only marginalized and silenced but associated because of gender with several serious sins, including sexual misconduct, lying, and slander. * Library Journal *

A groundbreaking book that should appeal to both popular and scholarly audiences. Because Juster is such a clear and forceful writer, her book is a pleasure to read. * Christian Century * Cogently argued and wonderfully written, Disorderly Women is an insightful and inspiring work on gender and religion in Revolutionary New England. * William and Mary Quarterly * Juster examines the changing role of Baptist women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England. At first essentially equal to men in church governance and in the right to speak in church, women were gradually excluded from power in Baptist churches after the Revolution. As the Baptist church adopted a more patriarchal model of church organization, women were not only marginalized and silenced but associated because of gender with several serious sins, including sexual misconduct, lying, and slander. * Library Journal * Susan Juster's valuable book traces the emergence and collapse of gender equality among New England Baptists from the mid-eighteenth century Great Awakening into the Age of Revolution. It also recounts evangelical women's brave but ill-fated attempts to preserve hard-won freedoms as the Brethren moved to portray them... as untrustworthy, irrational sinners to be feared and controlled by men.... A dazzling analysis of the operations of gender within evangelical religious experiences. * Women's Review of Books *

Juster examines the changing role of Baptist women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England. At first essentially equal to men in church governance and in the right to speak in church, women were gradually excluded from power in Baptist churches after the Revolution. As the Baptist church adopted a more patriarchal model of church organization, women were not only marginalized and silenced but associated because of gender with several serious sins, including sexual misconduct, lying, and slander. * Library Journal * Susan Juster's valuable book traces the emergence and collapse of gender equality among New England Baptists from the mid-eighteenth century Great Awakening into the Age of Revolution. It also recounts evangelical women's brave but ill-fated attempts to preserve hard-won freedoms as the Brethren moved to portray them... as untrustworthy, irrational sinners to be feared and controlled by men.... A dazzling analysis of the operations of gender within evangelical religious experiences. * Women's Review of Books * A groundbreaking book that should appeal to both popular and scholarly audiences. Because Juster is such a clear and forceful writer, her book is a pleasure to read. * Christian Century * Cogently argued and wonderfully written, Disorderly Women is an insightful and inspiring work on gender and religion in Revolutionary New England. * William and Mary Quarterly *

Susan Juster's valuable book traces the emergence and collapse of gender equality among New England Baptists from the mid-eighteenth century Great Awakening into the Age of Revolution. It also recounts evangelical women's brave but ill-fated attempts to preserve hard-won freedoms as the Brethren moved to portray them... as untrustworthy, irrational sinners to be feared and controlled by men.... A dazzling analysis of the operations of gender within evangelical religious experiences. --Women's Review of Books One of the most significant books about the early republic to appear in recent years. Juster challenges us to understand the American Revolution not only as a crisis between England and the colonies, King and people, and among men of different political persuasions, but also between men and women. Evangelical women who had once been understood as speaking truth to power were redefined as unstable, irresponsible, and disorderly. --Linda K. Kerber, author of Women of the Republic Juster examines the changing role of Baptist women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England. At first essentially equal to men in church governance and in the right to speak in church, women were gradually excluded from power in Baptist churches after the Revolution. As the Baptist church adopted a more patriarchal model of church organization, women were not only marginalized and silenced but associated because of gender with several serious sins, including sexual misconduct, lying, and slander. --Library Journal Cogently argued and wonderfully written, Disorderly Women is an insightful and inspiring work on gender and religion in Revolutionary New England. --William and Mary Quarterly A groundbreaking book that should appeal to both popular and scholarly audiences. Because Juster is such a clear and forceful writer, her book is a pleasure to read. --Christian Century

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Susan Juster is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan.

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