The contribution of quaker women to the political struggle for abolition, women's rights, and peace
Subtitle: from the Hicksite Schism to the American Friends Service Committee
By: Jody L. Cross-Hansen ; with a foreword by Barbara Welter
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780773400757
Subjects: Quaker women; Political activity; History; Quakers; Quaker abolitionists; Abolitionists; Antislavery movements; Women's rights; Feminism; Pacifism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-350) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Orthodox and Hicksite girls: Quaker training for leadership in fundamental Quaker values; title: The schism and the women reformers; title: Hicksite and orthodox abolitionists; title: Orthodox originators of the women's rights movement and suffrage; title: The Hicksite reformers and women's rights movement and suffrage; title: 19th century peace witness and the women reformers; title: Early 20th century peace reformers bring early healing of the schism.