Women Leaders and the Church by Linda L Belleville

Women Leaders and the Church by Linda L Belleville

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

Among the great American literary memoirs of the past century. . .a riveting portrait of an era. . .Johnson captures this period with deep clarity and moving insight. - Dwight Garner, The New York Times

In 1954, Joyce Johnson's Barnard professor told his class that most women could never have the kinds of experiences that would be worth writing about. Attitudes like that were not at all unusual at a time when good women didn't leave home or have sex before they married; even those who broke the rules could merely expect to be minor characters in the dramas played by men. But secret rebels, like Joyce and her classmate Elise Cowen, refused to accept things as they were.

As a teenager, Johnson stole down to Greenwich Village to sing folksongs in Washington Square. She was 21 and had started her first novel when Allen Ginsberg introduced her to Jack Kerouac; nine months later she was with Kerouac when the publication of On the Road made him famous overnight. Joyce had longed to go on the road with him; instead she got a front seat at a cultural revolution under attack from all sides; made new friends like Hettie and LeRoi Jones, and found herself fighting to keep the shy, charismatic, tormented Kerouac from destroying himself. It was a woman's adventure and a fast education in life. What Johnson and other Beat Generation women would discover were the risks, the heartache and the heady excitement of trying to live as freely as the rebels they loved.

Belleville, Linda L.: - Linda L. Belleville received her MA from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and PhD from the St. Michael's College, University of Toronto. She taught at Calvin College, North Park Theological Seminary and Bethel University. She is an adjunct professor of New Testament at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary. Her publications include commentaries on 2 Corinthians and 1 Timothy. She is an editor and contributor of Scripture and Paul: 1 Corinthians (vol 1) and Romans (vol 2).

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ISBN 13	9780801053511
ISBN 10	080105351X
Title	Women Leaders and the Church
Author	Linda L Belleville
Series	3 Crucial Questions Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Baker Publishing Group
Year published	2000-03-01
Number of pages	217
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