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Heller, Jennifer. "The Search for Something More: Evangelical Women, Middle-Class Marriage, and the "Problem That Has No Name" in Popular Advice Books of the 1970s ," American Studies, University of Kansas, May 2007. Advisor: Sherrie Tucker
Based on textual analysis and author interviews, “The Search for Something More: Evangelical Women, Middle-Class Marriage, and the ‘Problem That Has No Name’ in Popular Advice Books of the 1970s” examines attitudes on marriage and femininity among a group of women who simultaneously critical of and engaged with the writings and speeches of popular second-wave feminist writers. It argues that evangelical women’s popular writings on marriage can be best understood not as responses to works like The Feminine Mystique, but as parallel forms of discourse that emerged from many of the same impulses. The project also seeks to contextualize the women’s writings within the broader traditions of American domestic writings and middle-class self-help literature. The female evangelical authors discussed in this study were “baby boomers” whose early married years coincided with a period of change not only in social and cultural mores related to sexuality and family life but within traditional religious institutions as well. This dissertation offers an explication of the strategies the women used to reconcile their own goals and aspirations with a conservative interpretation of scriptural precepts related to marriage, submission, and the role of women in the church and home.
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