State women’s conventions elevated ordinary, previously unknown rural and urban women into public roles

Evidence

Sophia Shanks, president of the Arkansas women, credited her state association with building ordinary women’s selfconfidence as to their skills and abilities. “The State Association is the inspiration of the local Associations throughout the State, as they all look to the State Association as the head… . The Association has also brought to the public eye women who were never heard of, some in the cities and others in the rural districts, and so to be great factors in helping to carry on our work.” — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 364

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Traditional women exercised political agency from behind the scenes — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 961; Female Baptist convention delegates numbered few but were highly educated — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 1231; National women’s church networks disseminated new reform techniques to local communities — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 811 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• National women’s church networks disseminated new reform techniques to local communities #expands (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 811
• Traditional women exercised political agency from behind the scenes #qualifies (0.75) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 961
• Grassroots environmentalism grew through local groups led by women and minorities #exemplifies (0.74) — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 549
• Female Baptist convention delegates numbered few but were highly educated #qualifies (0.72) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1231
• Reform discourse recast women’s domestic power as backwardness to be disciplined by the state #complicates (0.72) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 365
• Early women scientists acted through egalitarian religious sects and domestic-role constriction #exemplifies (0.71) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 1017