Katherine E. Rohrer's Daughters of Divinity tells the story of how well-educated white women of the South used evangelical Protestant Christianity as an instrument to expand their intellectual and professional capacities as well as their agency and influence at home and throughout the world between 1830 and 1930.
"Daughters of Divinity explores the transformative impact of evangelical Christianity on a subset of young, elite women between 1830 and 1930. Tracing a shift in their evangelism from the private sphere into the public domain, Rohrer reveals the tension between this shift and deeply held racial and gender ideals, reflecting the coexistence of New South progressivism with Old South retrenchment."
Jennifer Lynn Gross, author of Sisterhood of the Lost Cause: Confederate Widows in the New
