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.

This new volume traces the history of gendered policing back to its emergence from the patriarchal household. It describes how a recognisable form of gendered policing emerged from practices of local government by patriarchs.