Yet five years after the release of The Religious History of American Women, the December 2012 issue of the Journal of American History dedicated to a state-of-the-field analysis of American women's and gender history hardly mentioned religion at all. She makes a compelling case that the answer is not that scholarship on American women's religious history doesn't exist-and that both omissions leave our understanding of our collective past significantly impoverished. In this ten-year-old essay, Brekus examines why so many synthetic works of American religious history ignore women and why so many synthetic works of American women's history ignore religion. Of American Religious History,” in The Religious History of American Women:
“Introduction: Searching for Women in Narratives Historiographic essay of all time, Catherine Brekus's Readings I assign for the first day is quite possibly my favorite On Women, Gender, and Sex in American Religious History. This fall I get to teach one of my favorite classes: my graduate course
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