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Sisters in the faith : Shaker women and equality of the sexes
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- Creator
- Glendyne R. Wergland
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 228 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781613760536, 9781558498624, 1613760531, 1558498621, 155849863X, 9781558498631
- OCLC
- ocn768288565, ocn632133159, ocn891464792
- 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