Women and Belief, 1852-1928

ISBN-13: 9780415472180 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 2880 str.

Jessica Cox;Mark Llewellyn

Opis

Brings together a diverse range of key texts from across the period 1852-1928 which deal with questions surrounding women's religious belief and sociocultural identity. This work is of interest to scholars, researchers, and students of women's and gender studies, women's history, and women's writing, and those working in allied and related fields.

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PROVISIONAL CONTENTS

VOLUME I

1. Julia Kavanagh, Women of Christianity, Exemplary for Acts of Piety and Charity ... with Portraits (London, 1852) (474pp.)

VOLUME II

2. Luther Lee, Woman’s Right to Preach the Gospel (1853) (22pp.)

3. Fred Folio, A Book for the Times: Lucy Boston, or, Woman’s Rights and Spiritualism: Illustrating the Follies and Delusions of the Nineteenth Century (New York: J. C. Derby, 1855) (406pp. including illustrations)

VOLUME III

4. William Landels, Woman’s Sphere and Work, Considered in the Light of Scripture: A Book for Young Women (London: James Nisbet and Co., 1859) (240pp.)

5. William Kay, The Influence of Christianity on the Position and Character of Woman: A Sermon (Calcutta, 1859) (55pp.)

6. Catherine Mumford Booth, Female Ministry: Or, Woman’s Right to Preach the Gospel (London, 1859) (23pp.)

7. Richard Seymour, Woman’s Work: A Speech Delivered in the Lower House of Convocation on Tuesday, July 19, 1861 (London, 1862) (24pp.)

8. I. T. Armstrong, Plea for Modern Prophetesses (Glasgow, 1866) (66pp.)

9. Anon, Female Franchise. Have Women Immortal Souls? The Popular Belief Disputed ... By a Clerk in Holy Orders (London, 1868) (19pp.)

VOLUME IV

10. Horace Bushnell, Women’s Suffrage: The Reform Against Nature (1869) (184 pp.)

11. Annie Rollo Stagg, The Importance of Religion to Woman (Stratford, Ontario, 1875) (69pp.)

12. J. G. Mandley, Woman Outside Christendom: An Exposition of the Influence Exerted by Christianity on the Social Position and Happiness of Women (London, 1880) (159pp.)

13. Elizabeth Machardie, What is Spiritualism? A Paper Read at the Annual Conference of the Christian Women’s Union, Held in Glasgow (London, 1884) (16pp.)

14. Louisa Samson, Why Women Should be Secularists (London, 1891) (16pp.)

VOLUME V

15. Lucy Helen Soulsby, Religious Education of Women (1894) (28pp.)

16. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Preface and Introduction to The Woman’s Bible (1895) (9pp.)

17. Bhagwant Hari Khare, How is Woman Treated by Man and Religion? (Bombay, 1896) (12pp.)

18. Eliza Burt Gamble, The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion (1897) (extract) (20pp.)

19. Lena Tyack, Joyce Maxwell’s Mistakes (1899) (63pp.)

20. Ellen Battelle Dietrick, Women in the Early Christian Ministry (1897) (148pp.)

21. Frederick James Gould, Will Women Help? An Appeal to Women to Assist in Liberating Modern Thought from Theological Bonds (London, 1900) (100pp.)

22. Florence Caroline Dixie, ‘Towards Freedom: An Appeal to Thoughtful Men and Women’, The Agnostic Journal, 1904–5 (14pp.)

23. Emily Hickey, Thoughts for Creedless Women (London, 1906) (32pp.)

VOLUME VI

24. Margaret Mordecai, Phases of Progress: A Study of the Evolution of Religion, Education and Woman (London: Sands & Co., 1910) (164pp.)

25. Katharine Bushnell, God’s Word to Women (1910) (70pp.)

26. Joseph Keating, S.J., Christianity and ‘Woman’s Rights’ (Catholic Social Guild Pamphlets No. 16) (London: Catholic Truth Society, 1912) (24pp.)

27. The Religious Aspect of the Women’s Movement: Being a Series of Addresses Delivered at Meetings at the Queen’s Hall, London, on June 19, 1912 (London: Collegium, 1912) (67pp.)

28. Syed Ameer Ali, The Legal Position of Women in Islam (1912) (47pp.)

29. Charlotte Despard, Theosophy and the Woman’s Movement (Riddle of Life Series No. IV) (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1913) (59pp. including illustrations)

30. Chapman Cohen, Woman and Christianity: The Subjection and Exploitation of a Sex (London: The Pioneer Press, 1919) (96pp.)

31. George Whitehead, Religion and Woman (London: Secular Society, 1928) (extract) (13pp.)