RT Article
T1 Baptist Boys and Girls: Gender Roles in Southern Baptist Children’s Magazines, 1953–1957
JF Church history and religious culture
VO 103
IS 3/4
SP 322
OP 339
A1 Maxwell, Melody 1980-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/187672384X
AB This paper will analyze the publications for children of Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU), auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention, from 1953 to 1957. These include Tell, a monthly magazine for girls, and Ambassador Life, a monthly magazine for boys. The paper will argue that these magazines urged girls to develop social graces while challenging boys to physical activity. In addition, both Ambassador Life and Tell generally encouraged their readers to adopt what editors saw as gender-specific roles, positing distinctive tasks for boys (and men) and for girls (and women). Overall, these emphases reflected conservative Southern Baptist understandings of gender and helped shape the views of a generation (or more) of Southern Baptists.
K1 Royal Ambassadors
K1 Girls’ Auxiliary
K1 Magazines
K1 1950s
K1 Baptist
K1 boy
K1 girl
K1 Gender
DO 10.1163/18712428-10303013