[Linganth] Ingie Hovland today on the blog

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the blog, Ingie Hovland discusses her book, *Life in Language:
Mission Feminists and the Emergence of a New Protestant Subject *with Retief
Müller.

www.campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: 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 *Life in Language*, 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.
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