Where are the women?

For all of it's brilliance and exceptional portrayal of many colorful and eccentric characters there are a few things in Hatch's history that seem noticeably left out. Women are the first demographic that come to mind. Jarena Lee, Rachel Stearns, Ann Lee, and a host of others are simply not even talked about, and their important contributions to Methodism and Baptists are lost. In thinking of Ann Lee, the mother of the Shakers, another question arises: what about the movements which were not as large as the Methodists, Baptists or Mormons, but still carry weight in the 19th century? Shakers, Millerites, Jehovah's, Christian Scientists, etc...

Granted no book can cover every topic of religious intrigue, yet speaking to these movements, and other genders of people involved in important, even if done in brief. 

Secondly, there is a question of whether or not his thesis holds for 21st century America. While we can be assured that popular preachers and not necessarily the best educated, and that the theology of these men and women is less than systematic, does it follow that evangelical movements as a whole suffer a decentralized populist view of things? How does it make sense that the evangelical lobby is one of the most powerful in the country, while the majority of people oppose in so way their worldview? What exactly is democratic about having a monopoly in congress to do your bidding? 

I honestly can't think of how to word my thoughts, the book while fascinating seems to simple, to neat. There seems to be something missing beyond women and other movements that I can't seem to put my finger on. 

Apologies for the lack of eloquence in all of this.