This collection of twelve new essays explores the role of women and gender in a broad range of 'radical' religious movements of the post-Reformation. Organized into three themed divisions, the first examines the activism of female Quakers in their public performances as preachers and petitioners, in their global travels, and in their domestic lives; the second examines early modern prophetesses and their radical revisions of scripture, gender, body, and voice; and the third concerns women who, in diverse ways, crossed boundaries, including the confessional boundaries of Europe. A strength of...
This collection of twelve new essays explores the role of women and gender in a broad range of 'radical' religious movements of the post-Reformation. ...
"This is a fascinating and intellectually honest work about a remarkable family that has played a major role in the history of Providence and Rhode Island. Sylvia Brown has made a tremendous contribution in writing this wonderful book. It is clearly a labor of love, and we should all be grateful to her for it."
- Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation
of New York, former President of Brown University
"A splendid work of history---an honest, clearly written, and solidly based account of the private and public lives through four centuries of one of America's...
"This is a fascinating and intellectually honest work about a remarkable family that has played a major role in the history of Providence and Rhode...
"This is a fascinating and intellectually honest work about a remarkable family that has played a major role in the history of Providence and Rhode Island. Sylvia Brown has made a tremendous contribution in writing this wonderful book. It is clearly a labor of love, and we should all be grateful to her for it."
- Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation
of New York, former President of Brown University
"A splendid work of history---an honest, clearly written, and solidly based account of the private and public lives through four centuries of one of America's...
"This is a fascinating and intellectually honest work about a remarkable family that has played a major role in the history of Providence and Rhode...
