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Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community - A Literary Study of Political Identities, 1650-1700 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community - A Literary Study of Political Identities, 1650-1700 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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Focussing on Quaker pamphlet literature of the commonwealth and
restoration period, Catie Gill seeks to explore and explain women's
presence as activists, writers, and subjects within the early
Quaker movement. Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community
draws on contemporary resources such as prophetic writing, prison
narratives, petitions, and deathbed testimonies to produce an
account of women's involvement in the shaping of this religious
movement. The book reveals that, far from being of marginal
importance, women were able to exploit the terms in which Quaker
identity was constructed to create roles for themselves, in public
and in print, that emphasised their engagement with Friends'
religious and political agenda. Gill's evidence suggests that women
were able to mobilise contemporary notions of femininity when
pursuing active roles as prophets, martyrs, mothers, and political
activists. The book's focus on collective, Quaker identities, which
arises from its analysis of multiple-authored texts, is key to its
claims that gender issues have to be considered when analysing the
sect's emergent system of values, and Gill assesses the
representation of women in male-authored texts in addition to
female writers' attitudes to agency. A bibliography that, for the
first time, lists men and women's involvement as contributors as
well as authors to Quaker pamphlets provides a valuable resource
for scholars of seventeenth-century radicalism.
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