Sarah Apetrei

Women, Feminism and Religion in Early Enlightenment England

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Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering study of the origins of feminist thought in late seventeenth-century England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 547g
• ISBN-13: 9781107696709
• ISBN-10: 1107696704
• Artikelnr.: 41369741

Autorenporträt

Sarah Apetrei is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Theology, Keble College, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. 'The Order of Platonick Ladies': Mary Astell and her Circle: 1. Female advocates: defences of women in seventeenth-century England
2. 'Out of choice and not necessitie': the celibacy of Mary Astell
3. Reason, gender and the passions in Mary Astell
4. Mary Astell's feminism and the religion of Protestants
Part II. 'The Company of the She-Publishers': Prophets, Mystics and Visionaries: 5. Quaker women and Protestant renewal
6. Millenarians and Philadelphians
7. The universal principle of grace
8. The divine life: celestial flesh and inner light
Conclusion
Bibliography.