Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650-1750

ISBN-13: 9781316649626 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 318 str.

Naomi Pullin

Opis

This original interpretation of the lives and social interactions of Quaker women in the British Atlantic between 1650 and 1750 highlights the unique ways in which adherence to the movement shaped women's lives, as well as the ways in which female Friends transformed seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious and political culture.

Recenzje

'A significant contribution to early modern transatlantic and religious historiography, Pullin indirectly reminds the reader that women's history is everyone's history. … this book is a must- read for scholars and historians of religion and gender studies to as far afield as colonial Quakerism and the British Atlantic.' Allison Kach, Religious Studies Review

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Spiritual housewives and Mothers in Israel: Quaker domestic relationships; 2. 'A government of women': authority and community within the Quaker Women's Meetings; 3. 'United by this holy cement': the constructions, practices, and experiences of female Friendship; 4. 'In the world, but not of it': Quaker women's interactions with the non-Quaker world; Conclusion: Quakerism reconsidered; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.