Your Daughters Will Prophesy

"In this well-written and accessible book, Lisa Marie Gring-Pemble and Martha Watson reveal how four of the most influential nineteenth-century US women wrestled with scripture and the Christian tradition to justify their public speaking and activism."—Kristy Maddux, University of Maryland, author of Practicing Citizenship: Women's Rhetoric at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair

"Most people—inside and outside of academia—would not consider the possibility that activists might look to scripture to make the case for women's rights. Your Daughters Will Prophesy counters this assumption with a detailed history of the ways in which nineteenth-century female reformers used the Bible as a rhetorical resource."—Patricia Davis, Northeastern University, author of Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity