Visionary Women : ecstatic prophecy in seventeenth-century England /

Main Author: Mack, Phyllis.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.
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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.