Should we worry that evangelical Protestantism turns men into abusive and insensitive patriarchs in the home? Not exactly.
References
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JohnP. Bartkowski.Remaking the Godly Marriage: Gender Negotiation in Evangelical Families (Rutgers University Press, 2001). Evangelical Protestant couples draw selectively on both essentialist and feminist gender ideals in negotiating married life.
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PennyEdgell.Religion and Family in a Changing Society (Princeton University Press, 2005). Men, more than women, attend church to socialize their children, and are thus more likely than women to be attracted to churches that cater to traditional families.
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SallyGallagher.Evangelical Identity and Gendered Family Life (Rutgers University Press, 2003). The conventional critique of evangelical Protestant gender politics does not capture the ambiguities and heterogeneity of gender beliefs and behaviors in this subculture.
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JenniferGlassJerryJacobs. “Childhood Religious Conservatism and Adult Attainment among Black and White Women.” Social Forces84 (2005): 555–579. Evangelical Protestantism puts many women on a trajectory toward early motherhood and marriage and away from fulltime employment.
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Bradford WilcoxW.. Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands (University of Chicago Press, 2004). The impact of religion on mainline and evangelical Protestant family men.
