Women, Feminism and Religion in Early Enlightenment England

Apetrei, Sarah

Women, Feminism and Religion in Early Enlightenment England - New York Cambridge University 2010 - 325 - Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History; 201000ENGGPS1 .

includes index and biblioraphy

PART I .THE ORDER OF PLATONICK LADIES :MARY ASTELL AND HER CIRCLE 47 1.Female advocates: defences of women in seventeenth-century England 49 2.`Out of choice and not necessitie`: the celibacy of Mary Astell 75 3.Reason, gender and the passions in Mary Astell 95 4.Mary Astell`s feminism and the religion of Protestants 117 PART II.THE COMPANY OF THE SHE-PUBLISHERS :PROPHETS, MYSTICS AND VISIONARIES 153 5.Quaker women and Protestant renewal 155 6.Millenarians and Philadelphians 177 7.The universal principle of grace 208 8.The divine life: celestial flesh and inner light 243

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N49(N95.4) / AP260

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