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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.
This third installment in the New History of Quakerism series is a
comprehensive assessment of transatlantic Quakerism across the long
eighteenth century, a period during which Quakers became
increasingly sectarian even as they expanded their engagement with
politics, trade, industry, and science. The contributors to this
volume interrogate and deconstruct this paradox, complicating
traditional interpretations of what has been termed “Quietist
Quakerism.” Examining the period following the Toleration Act in
England of 1689 through the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation in North
America, this work situates Quakers in the eighteenth-century
British Atlantic world. Three thematic sections—exploring unique
Quaker testimonies and practices; tensions between Quakerism in
community and Quakerism in the world; and expressions of Quakerism
around the Atlantic world—broaden geographic understandings of
the Quaker Atlantic experience to determine how local events shaped
expressions of Quakerism. The authors challenge oversimplified
interpretations of Quaker practices and reveal a complex Quaker
world, one in which prescription and practice were more often
negotiated than dictated, even after the mid-eighteenth-century
“reformation” and tightening of the Discipline on both sides of
the Atlantic. Accessible and well-researched, Quakerism in the
Atlantic World, 1690-1830, provides fresh insights and raises new
questions about an understudied period of Quaker history. In
addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume include
Richard C. Allen, Erin Bell, Erica Canela, Elizabeth Cazden, Andrew
Fincham, Sydney Harker, Rosalind Johnson, Emma Lapsansky-Werner,
Jon Mitchell, and Geoffrey Plank.
This third installment in the New History of Quakerism series is a
comprehensive assessment of transatlantic Quakerism across the long
eighteenth century, a period during which Quakers became
increasingly sectarian even as they expanded their engagement with
politics, trade, industry, and science. The contributors to this
volume interrogate and deconstruct this paradox, complicating
traditional interpretations of what has been termed "Quietist
Quakerism." Examining the period following the Toleration Act in
England of 1689 through the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation in North
America, this work situates Quakers in the eighteenth-century
British Atlantic world. Three thematic sections-exploring unique
Quaker testimonies and practices; tensions between Quakerism in
community and Quakerism in the world; and expressions of Quakerism
around the Atlantic world-broaden geographic understandings of the
Quaker Atlantic experience to determine how local events shaped
expressions of Quakerism. The authors challenge oversimplified
interpretations of Quaker practices and reveal a complex Quaker
world, one in which prescription and practice were more often
negotiated than dictated, even after the mid-eighteenth-century
"reformation" and tightening of the Discipline on both sides of the
Atlantic. Accessible and well-researched, Quakerism in the Atlantic
World, 1690-1830, provides fresh insights and raises new questions
about an understudied period of Quaker history. In addition to the
editor, the contributors to this volume include Richard C. Allen,
Erin Bell, Erica Canela, Elizabeth Cazden, Andrew Fincham, Sydney
Harker, Rosalind Johnson, Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Jon Mitchell, and
Geoffrey Plank.
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