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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wergland, Glendyne R. Sisters in the faith. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2011 (OCoLC)768288565 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Glendyne R Wergland |
| ISBN: | 9781558498631 155849863X |
| OCLC Number: | 632133159 |
| Description: | xiii, 228 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| 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. |
| Other Titles: | Shaker women and equality of the sexes |
| Responsibility: | Glendyne R. Wergland. |
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