Baptist women, not just men, drove the conservative gender turn in the SBC

Evidence

It wasn’t just Baptist men who helped accomplish this shift. Influenced by Elisabeth Elliot’s writings and by their participation in Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum and Beverly LaHaye’s Concerned Women for America, Baptist women themselves advanced conservative gender roles within the SBC. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 250

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates a simple male-patriarchy account; women’s own agency via consumer culture (Elliot’s writings, Schlafly, LaHaye) supports the book’s method of tracing identity through commercial and parachurch networks. — connects to: Feminist theology by black Baptist women was intellectually serious, not insipid — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 680; Right-wing takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention proceeded by top-level coup — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 283