Evangelical women’s gender identity fueled the grassroots Religious Right activism.

Evidence

Although it’s unlikely that the millions of women who read their work did so explicitly as a political act, many evangelical women would develop their own fierce partisan allegiances in alignment with the gender identities they advanced. Motivated to defend “traditional” femininity and masculinity, evangelical women would play a critical role in the grassroots activism that launched the Religious Right. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 154

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how conservative women’s politics run through gender identity rather than explicit theology—resonates with the reader’s interest in why white evangelical women vote as they do. — connects to: The Religious Right began as reaction to IRS desegregation of Christian schools. — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 312; The Religious Right’s abortion politics predate Roe and were chosen for strategic reasons — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 222; Undisclosed movement strategists architect the grassroots religious right. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 721 (+1 more)