Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
x, 273 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [235]-250. |
Note |
Includes index. |
Contents |
Introduction : the first feminists -- Quaker women in Puritan England -- The traveling women ministers, 1650-1800 -- Development of the women's business meetings, 1670-1800 -- Quaker women in colonial America -- Reformation and revolution -- The nineteenth century : expansion and change -- Pioneers in antislavery and women's rights -- Quaker women and the early suffrage movement -- One reform and another -- Pioneering the professions -- Meetings and ministry : the nineteenth century -- The Quaker influence in the final struggle for suffrage -- Building a peace movement -- Quaker women today. |
Subject |
Quaker women -- United States -- History.
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Indexed Term |
United States Quaker women reformers, ca 1650-1985 |
ISBN |
0062500430 |
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9780062500434 |
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