Boundaries and Silences in a Post-Feminist Sociology

Sociology of Religion, Winter, 2000 by Penny Edgell Becker

(6.) Recent reviews of literature in several areas of research on the family and family and work do not mention religion at allot treat it with only the briefest of passing mentions; see for example Cherlin (1996), and Shelton and John (1996) on the division of household labor, or Spain and Bianchi's (1996) review of recent research on changes in marriage, motherhood, and women's employment.

(7.) For a recent review of the works on evangelical Protestantism see Christiano (1999) or Woodbury and Smith (1998), and for some good recent exemplars see Brasher (1998), Manning (1999), and Wilcox (1999). See Bendroth (1993), who argues that this characterization of conservative Protestants (as having symbolic male headship but practical equality) does not apply to fundamentalist Protestants, who are also quite patriarchal in practice. See McDannell (1995) for a distinction between a masculinist "official" Catholicism and a more home-centered and woman-friendly Catholic popular culture, and Davidman (1991) for an examination of women's roles in conservative Jewish groups.

(8.) For a brief review see Becker and Moen (1999); Spain and Bianchi (1996) have a much longer review, as does Hays (1996).

(9.) See Wessinger (1993).

(10.) For reviews see Warner (1962) or Ellwood (1997).

(11.) For a review of the demographic changes see Treas (1999) or Furstenberg (1999). A few studies of individual congregations exist; for example, see Demmitt (1992) and Marler (1995).

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