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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 both 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.
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