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Sisters in the faith: Shaker women and equality of the sexes

Glendyne R. Wergland
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Preface (page xi)
  • Shaker Terminology (page xiii)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • 1. Ann Lee (page 13)
  • 2. The Short Marriage of Mother Lucy Wright (page 29)
  • 3. Why Women Joined the Shakers, 1780-1840 (page 42)
  • 4. Shaker Girlhood (page 56)
  • 5. Chastity and the Shaker Cap (page 73)
  • 6. The World's Views of Shaker Sisters, 1782-1865 (page 87)
  • 7. Work, Reciprocity, Equality, and Union (page 102)
  • 8. Gendered Conflict among the Shakers (page 114)
  • 9. Abuse by Spirit Messages during the Era of Manifestations (page 128)
  • 10. The New Lebanon Deaconesses' Bonnet Business, 1835-1850 (page 148)
  • Conclusions on Shaker Equality of the Sexes (page 161)
  • Notes (page 175)
  • Index (page 217)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
CH 81.4 (2012): 1005-1007 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23358716
NR 16.4 (2013): 126-127 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2013.16.4.126
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Published: c2011
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9781613760536 (ebook)
  • 9781558498631 (paper)
  • 9781558498624 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Religion
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