Each Mind a Kingdom
"Ambitious, engaging and beautifully written, this study of late-19th-century American women's psychological and intellectual relationship to progressive social movements and quasi-religious self-improvement cults is a groundbreaking investigation that overturns established paradigms in which women are buffeted by history rather than agents of it." - Publishers Weekly"
The New Thought Movement was an enormously popular late nineteenth-century spiritual movement led largely by and for women. Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science is but one example of the fascinating range of these groups, which advocated a belief in mind over matter and espoused women's spiritual ability to purify the world. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of California Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 394
- ISBN
- 9780520229273
- Utgivelsesår
- 2001
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
"Ambitious, engaging and beautifully written, this study of late-19th-century American women's psychological and intellectual relationship to progressive social movements and quasi-religious self-improvement cults is a groundbreaking investigation that overturns established paradigms in which women are buffeted by history rather than agents of it." - Publishers Weekly"