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Sisters in the faith [electronic resource] : Shaker women and equality of the sexes / Glendyne R. Wergland.

By: Publication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 228 pages, [20] pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781613760536
  • 1613760531
Other title:
  • Shaker women and equality of the sexes
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sisters in the faith.DDC classification:
  • 289/.8082 22
LOC classification:
  • BX9789.W7 W47 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. Joining the Shakers -- Ann Lee -- The short marriage of Mother Lucy Wright -- Why women joined the Shakers, 1780-1840 -- Shaker girlhood -- Chastity and the Shaker cap -- pt. 2. Work and worship -- The world's views of Shaker sisters, 1782-1865 -- Work, reciprocity, equality, and union -- Gendered conflict among the Shakers -- Abuse by spirit messages during the era of manifestations -- The New Lebanon deaconesses' bonnet business, 1835-1850 -- Conclusions on Shaker equality of the sexes.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-216) and index.

pt. 1. Joining the Shakers -- Ann Lee -- The short marriage of Mother Lucy Wright -- Why women joined the Shakers, 1780-1840 -- Shaker girlhood -- Chastity and the Shaker cap -- pt. 2. Work and worship -- The world's views of Shaker sisters, 1782-1865 -- Work, reciprocity, equality, and union -- Gendered conflict among the Shakers -- Abuse by spirit messages during the era of manifestations -- The New Lebanon deaconesses' bonnet business, 1835-1850 -- Conclusions on Shaker equality of the sexes.

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