Visionary Women : ecstatic prophecy in seventeenth-century England /
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Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1992.
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Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21274 |
Table of Contents:
- Feminine symbolism and female prophecy : gender and knowledge in the world turned upside down
- Woman, nature, and spirit
- Male and female power : visionary women and the social order
- Talking back : women as prophets during the Civil War and Interregnum, 1640-1664
- Friends in Eden : gender and spirituality in Early Quakerism, 1650-1664
- Ecstasy and self-transcendence
- Prophecy
- Ecstasy and everyday life
- How were Quakers radical?
- Visionary orders : women in the Quaker Movement, 1664-1700
- The snake in the garden : Quaker politics and the origin of the women's meeting
- The mystical housewife
- Selfhood and Enlightenment : Quaker preaching and discipline, 1664-1700.