"This work will present a complete history of women's education in a Southern Baptist context by examining the Women's Missionary Union Training School (commonly referred to as the Carver School). Established in 1907, the school provided recognition that the denomination needed educated, female leadership but also sought to limit this leadership to missionary work and away from pastoral ministry and other forms of leadership in the church. The history of the school reflects the changing nature of the denomination as a whole, embodying broad social concern at certain times, but the school became increasingly under fire as the Southern Baptist takeover loomed in the early nineties"--

T. LAINE SCALES is a professor of social work at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She is editor or author of over thirty articles and chapters and ten books including Christian Faith and University Life: Stewards of the Academy and "All that Fits a Woman" Training Southern Baptist Women for Charity and Mission, 1907-1926.

MELODY MAXWELL is an associate professor of church history at Acadia Divinity College in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her works have appeared in multiple journals of religious studies, including Perspective Religious Studies, Baptist History and Heritage, and Tennessee Baptist History. She is the author of The Woman I Am: Southern Baptist Women's Writings, 1906-2006.