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"Troubling Violence at Home:
Creative Religious, Legal, Social, and Ethical Responses to Abuse"
A Free Public Lecture by Elaine Lawless
Thursday, April 28, 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Allen Auditorium (Arts & Sciences Building)
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Dr. Elaine Lawless is Curators' Distinguished Professor of English and
Folklore Studies, Women's Studies, and Religious Studies at the University
of Missouri-Columbia. She is the editor of the Journal of American Folklore and
the author of Women Escaping Violence: Empowerment Through Narrative (University
of Missouri Press, 2001), which won the American Folklore Society's Elli
Kongas-Maranda Prize. Her previous books include Women Preaching Revolution:
Calling for Connection in a Disconnected Time (University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1996), Holy Women, Wholly Women: Sharing Ministries of Wholeness
Through Life Stories and Reciprocal Ethnography (University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1993), God's Peculiar People: Women's Voices and Folk Tradition
in a Pentecostal Church (University of Kentucky Press, 1988), and Handmaidens
of the Lord: Pentecostal Women Preachers and Traditional Religion (University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1988). Lawless also produced the documentary film Joy
Unspeakable. Her current research deals with the narratives of battered
women in the Midwest.
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