Add to ORKGThis paper assesses the position of women within the Quaker community, concentrating on their ministerial roles. Female prophets and preachers were visible during the first decade of Quakerism, and the early years prove fruitful for exploration of women\u27s experiences. In order to consider the difficulties women faced when taking a public role in support of Quakerism, some context on seventeenth-century attitudes to women will be provided. It will be argued that women had to challenge patriarchal notions that the \u27weaker\u27 sex should be silent, passive and obedient. In contrast to prevailing seventeenth-century norms, the potential radicalism of the Quaker approach to gender can be demonstrated. Yet, the majority of this paper deals ...
Quakerism emerged as one of the radical sects of the English Civil War years. Following the 16th ce...
As Karen Harvey and Alexandra Shepard have asserted, most research into the history of masculinity h...
The town of Newcastle in the early nineteenth century offered many diverse forms of entertainment an...
This paper assesses the position of women within the Quaker community, concentrating on their minist...
Throughout the tumultuous period that was the English Civil War, there was a great change in society...
This study explores how Quaker women positioned themselves amid the shifting English political clima...
An undeniable tension exists in human nature between conscience and external authority. This dichoto...
By the second half of the eighteenth century, women ministers had become the principal upholders of ...
The aim of this paper is to suggest way s in which Quaker women Ministers, in a period of considerab...
This article is a study of the development and role of early Quaker women\u27s Meetings during the s...
[Quaker Women in the Seventeenth Century] The article describes the central role of women in the ori...
Wilcox argues that early Quakers\u27 attitudes to women resulted from their confidence in the dawnin...
In the last three decades, research on eighteenth-century British Quaker women reflects a range of d...
Female Quaker preachers of mid-seventeenth century England perplexed their non-Quaker contemporaries...
The presence of Quaker women at the founding of a social movement for women\u27s rights in Britain i...
Quakerism emerged as one of the radical sects of the English Civil War years. Following the 16th ce...
As Karen Harvey and Alexandra Shepard have asserted, most research into the history of masculinity h...
The town of Newcastle in the early nineteenth century offered many diverse forms of entertainment an...
This paper assesses the position of women within the Quaker community, concentrating on their minist...
Throughout the tumultuous period that was the English Civil War, there was a great change in society...
This study explores how Quaker women positioned themselves amid the shifting English political clima...
An undeniable tension exists in human nature between conscience and external authority. This dichoto...
By the second half of the eighteenth century, women ministers had become the principal upholders of ...
The aim of this paper is to suggest way s in which Quaker women Ministers, in a period of considerab...
This article is a study of the development and role of early Quaker women\u27s Meetings during the s...
[Quaker Women in the Seventeenth Century] The article describes the central role of women in the ori...
Wilcox argues that early Quakers\u27 attitudes to women resulted from their confidence in the dawnin...
In the last three decades, research on eighteenth-century British Quaker women reflects a range of d...
Female Quaker preachers of mid-seventeenth century England perplexed their non-Quaker contemporaries...
The presence of Quaker women at the founding of a social movement for women\u27s rights in Britain i...
Quakerism emerged as one of the radical sects of the English Civil War years. Following the 16th ce...
As Karen Harvey and Alexandra Shepard have asserted, most research into the history of masculinity h...
The town of Newcastle in the early nineteenth century offered many diverse forms of entertainment an...