Sandra Stanley Holton

Quaker Women (eBook, PDF)

Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 1780-1930

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Written by a respected and pioneering historian of women, this book focuses on specific case studies of the lives of individual Quaker women and uses them to introduce key concepts and theories relating to women's lives during this period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135141097
• Artikelnr.: 38245576

Autorenporträt

Sandra Holton is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History, University of Adelaide, South Australia. Her previous publications include Suffrage Days (Routledge, 1996), Feminism and Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 1986) and she co-edited Votes for Women (Routledge, 2000). Her research into on the Priestman - Bright circle has been published in journals including American Historical Review, Victorian Studies, Journal of Women's History and Women's History review.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Margaret Wood (1783-1859)
Quaker Spinster and Shopkeeper 3. Kinship
Money and Worldliness: Margaret Wood and 'a Snug Independence' 4. Rachel Priestman
a 'Public Friend' 5. Marriages
Births and Deaths: The Formation of the Priestman-Bright Circle 6. Religion
Family and Public Life 7. Sisters
Marriage and Friendship 8. The Single Life: Education
Religion and Reform Among the Priestman-Bright Circle 9. Family
Friendship and Politics 10. Marriage
Money and the Networked Family 11. Helen Clark
Family Life and Politics 12. The Changing Order: Family
Friendship and Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century 13. Suffragism and Democracy 14. The Priestman-Bright Circle and Women's History