Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I Introduction and Background
One Evangelical Family Life and America's Culture Wars
Two Evangelical Families in Historical Perspective
Part II Contemporary Conservative Protestant Gender Discourse: Elite Evangelical Prescriptions for Family Life
Three Discourses of Masculinity, Femininity, and Sexuality: Evangelical Debates over Gender Difference
Four Wifely Submission or Mutual Submission? Evangelical Discourses of Family Power
Five Separate Spheres or Domestic Task Sharing? Evangelical Debates over Financial Provision, Housework, and Child Care
Part III Tandem Gender Negotiation among Evangelical Spouses
Six Vive la Difference? Gender Difference in Family Ministry and Domestic Life
Seven Negotiating Patriarchy: Submission, Subversion, and Family Power
Eight Labor of Love? Financial Provision, Housework, and Child Care
Conclusion Refashioning Evangelical Families for the Twenty-First Century: Godly Marriages in a Millennial Age
Appendix A: Textual Analysis Methodology
Appendix B: Participant-Observation and In-Depth
Interview Methodologies
Notes
References
Index