Kristin Kobes Du Mez offers insight into nineteenth-century social reformer Katharine Bushnell's innovative, radical, yet hermeneutically conservative feminist theology. She illuminates the difficulties women faced in coming to terms with changing constructions of sexuality, morality, and religion in modern America - difficulties that continue to plague the project of Christian feminism today. And she sheds new light on the rise of modern feminism and the history of Christianity and feminism in America, and also provides an historical backdrop to contemporary evangelical anti-trafficking efforts.
