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
Summary
Tracing the roots of feminism in the Quaker tradition from the Reformation to the present, this study explores the Quaker religious practices that shaped the spiritual and social structure of both the Society of Friends and the feminist movement
Analysis
United States Quaker women reformers, ca 1650-1985
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index
