Women, gender, and radical religion in early modern Europe (Brill, 2007)
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Quaker women and radical activism across the boundaries - Prophetic cries at Whitehall : the gender dynamics of early Quaker women's injurious speech - Kirilka Stavreva - The radical travels of Mary Fisher : walking and writing in the universal light - Sylvia Brown - Seven thousand "hand-maids and daughters of the Lord" : Lincolnshire and Cheshire Quaker women's anti-tithe protests in late Interregnum and Restoration England - Stephen A. Kent - "Truly dear hearts" : family and spirituality in Quaker women's writings 1680-1750 - Sheila Wright -- - Prophetesses : radical revisions of knowledge, gender, body, self - "Break down the walls of flesh" : Anna Trapnel, John James, and Fifth Monarchist self-representation - Naomi Baker - A "remarkable female of womankind" : gender, Scripture, and knowledge in the wriitngs of M. Marsin - Sarah Apetrei - "Mother of love " : spiritual maternity in the works of Jane Lead (1624-1704) - Julie Hirst - "I wish to be nothing" : the role of self-denial in the mystical theology of Anna Maria van Schurman - Bo Karen Lee -- - Women and radicalism across Europe, across confessions - Mouldered away in the Tower with the fruit of the womb? : on the treatment of pregnant Anabaptist women under criminal law - Marion Kobelt-Groch ; translated by Dennis L. Slabaugh - "They are but women" : Mary Ward, 1585-1645 - Pamela Ellis - Cherchez la femme : radical religion in the life and poetry of Luisa de Carvajal - José Manuel González - "A wise and godly Sybilla" : Viscountess Ranelagh and the politics of international Protestantism - Ruth Connolly
This collection of essays explores the role of women and gender in a broad range of 'radical' religious movements of the post-Reformation