Naomi Pullin (University of Cambridge)

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781316649626
• ISBN-10: 1316649628
• Artikelnr.: 59773367

Autorenporträt

Naomi Pullin is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Research Associate at St John's College, Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

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.