Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform, 1776-1939

by Dorothy May Emerson (Editor), Helene Knox (Editor), June Edwards (Editor)

Letters, essays, stories, speeches and poems by women who were social reformers from 1776 to 1936.

Genres: History

615 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1999

About the author

The Rev. Dr. Dorothy May Emerson is a semi-retired Unitarian Universalist minister, author, and workshop leader. Her recent ministry includes the co-founding of UU Class Conversations, which seeks to inspire UU congregations to become more class-inclusive and diverse. Her newest book is Sea Change: the unfinished agenda of the 1960s, a memoir set in California (and Germany) and commentary on the ongoing significance of the culture change begun in that iconic era.
A native Californian, she has lived in the Boston area for the past 30-plus years, most of the time with her spouse, Donna Clifford. They enjoy traveling, visiting new places, seeing amazing sites, and meeting interesting people. Her previous books include Called to Community: New Directions in UU Ministry; Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform 1776-1936; Glorious Women: Award-Winning Sermons about Women; and the curriculum “Becoming Women of Wisdom: Marking the Passage into the Crone Years.”

Reviews

[Book · Rating 5 out of 5]

Certainly the best book of its type. Biographical sketches followed by important speeches and other writings of notable women reformers who happen to have been Universalists or Unitarians. Now that's my kind of book.

[Carmen]

I'm using it as primary readings/supplementary biographical information on Unitarian and Universalist women for Jon Luopa's UU History class.