Each mind a kingdom : American women, sexual purity, and the New Thought movement, 1875-1920 /
Satter, Beryl,1959-
Berkeley : University of California Press,
2001, c1999.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-357) and index.
New Thought in late-Victorian America -- The era of woman and the problem of desire -- The mother or the warrior: mind, matter, selfhood, and desire in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and Warren Felt Evans -- Emma Curtis Hopkins and the spread of New Thought, 1885-1905 -- Sex and desirelessness: the New Thought novels of Helen Van-Anderson, Ursula Gestefeld, and Alice Bunker Stockham -- Money and desire: Helen Wilmans and the reorientation of New Thought -- New Thought and early progressivism -- New Thought and popular psychology, 1905-1920 -- New Thought in American culture after 1920.
Eddy, Mary Baker, 1821-1910.
New Thought
Women
Christian Science
Twelve-step programs
Sex role
Feminism
Sex customs