Sisters in the faith [electronic resource] : Shaker women and equality of the sexes / Glendyne R. Wergland.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 228 p., [20] p. of plates :) illContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781613760536
- 1613760531
- 289/.8082 22
- BX9789.W7 W47 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Shaker terminology -- Introduction -- 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 -- 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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