TY - BOOK AU - Apetrei, Sarah AU - Apetrei,Sarah TI - Women, Feminism and Religion in Early Enlightenment England SN - 9780521513968 U1 - N49(N95.4) PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University N1 - 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 ER -