Quaker Women 1800 1920

This collection investigates the world of nineteenth-century Quaker women, bringing to light the issues and challenges Quaker women experienced and the dynamic ways in which they were active agents of social change, cultural contestation, and gender transgression in the nineteenth century. New research illuminates the complexities of Quaker testimonies of equality, slavery, and peace and how they were informed by questions of gender, race, ethnicity, and culture. The essays in this volume challenge the view that Quaker women were always treated equally with men and that people of color were welcomed into white Quaker activities. The contributors explore how diverse groups of Quaker women navigated the intersection of their theological positions and social conventions, asking how they challenged and supported traditional ideals of gender, race, and class. In doing so, this volume highlights the complexity of nineteenth-century Quakerism and the ways Quaker women put their faith to both expansive and limiting ends. Reaching beyond existing national studies focused solely on white American or British Quaker women, this interdisciplinary volume presents the most current research, providing a necessary and foundational resource for scholars, libraries, and universities. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Joan Allen, Richard C. Allen, Stephen W. Angell, Jennifer M. Buck, Nancy Jiwon Cho, Isabelle Cosgrave, Thomas D. Hamm, Julie L. Holcomb, Anna Vaughan Kett, Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Linda Palfreeman, Hannah Rumball, and Janet Scott.

An interdisciplinary investigation of nineteenth-century Quaker women's cultural challenges, historical landmarks, and gender transgressions. Explores the dynamic ways that Quaker women were active agents of social and cultural change within multiple contexts.

Explores the role of Quaker women in social reform during the period from 1790-1920, particularly among the leading female reformers of the Northeast, focusing especially on the reforms of abolition, women's rights and peace witness. This book addresses historian Nancy Hewitt's question; did the Hicksite schism lead to liberal reform among women?

Women embraced Quakerism because of the respect it afforded them, granting them central roles in the religious and public sphere. Their importance in their own time, however, has not been mirrored in the work of historians of Canada, who have been reluctant to consider women and religion as joint historical subjects worthy of an investigation. This paper examines the "Minutes of the West Lake Meetings of Friends" held by members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Upper Canada, Prince Edward County, for the years 1800-1865. These minutes reveal the social, political and religious activities of Quaker women and their wider importance to Canadian history. Supported by their religious faith, the women of the West Lake Monthly Meeting integrated themselves into the broader transatlantic network of women to end slavery. -- Author's abstract.

A study of the influence of a number of Quaker women in America, this text moves beyond narrow denominationalism to pose questions about the nature and implications of religious experience.

"These women were passionate, dynamic, and full of conviction...Engaging and quick reading that should appeal to students in women's studies, Quakerism, and New England history". -- Library Journal

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