{"product_id":"life-in-language-ingie-hovland-9780226838311","title":"Life in Language: Mission Feminists and the Emergence of a New Protestant Subject","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new anthropology of Protestant feminism, anchored by the language experiments of one Lutheran community.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The language of the Bible is a powerful lens through which many Protestants understand themselves and their world, and its prohibitions on women's speech pose complicated challenges to women. Nevertheless, women frequently serve as vocal leaders in Protestant organizations, including the early twentieth-century Norwegian Mission Society. In \u003ci\u003eLife in Language\u003c\/i\u003e, Ingie Hovland offers a unique biography of Henny Dons, a leader of the society's so-called mission feminists, that grapples with ways Protestant women crafted innovative, expansive self-understandings through Christian language. More than their male peers, the mission feminists turned to religious speech to express material, as well as heavenly, desires for paid work, voting rights, and more, and Hovland argues that these experiments in women speaking, reading, writing, and listening paved the way for a new way of being in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ingie Hovland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226838315\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226838311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Ingie Hovland","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46526477861119,"sku":"9780226838311","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cc6dc7de-76c7-4884-b675-ab12c1954646.jpg?v=1737556296","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/life-in-language-ingie-hovland-9780226838311","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}