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O Sisters Ain't You Happy?: Gender, Family, and Community Among the Harvard and Shirley Shakers, 1781-1918 (Women and Gender in Religion)
Suzanne R. Thurman
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Description for O Sisters Ain't You Happy?: Gender, Family, and Community Among the Harvard and Shirley Shakers, 1781-1918 (Women and Gender in Religion)
Hardcover. Drawing on archival material from Shaker members, observers, and apostates, this work offers a study of life in two of the oldest, most prominent American Shaker villages: the Harvard and Shirley communities of Massachusetts. Series: Women & Gender in North American Religions. Num Pages: 208 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBLW; HRCC99; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
Compelling, in-depth analysis of Shaker villages that sheds light on how communal attitudes helped to liberate Shaker women. Drawing on archival material from Shaker members, observers, and apostates, noted historian Suzanne R. Thurman offers a scholarly yet eminently readable study of life in two of the oldest, most prominent American Shaker villages: the Harvard and Shirley communities of Massachusetts. Even as she delves into the complex fabric of Shaker social life, Thurman challenges traditional perceptions of gender roles within the community. Shaker spiritual and social ethics, she points out, strongly favored women. Celibacy and an androgynous theology, for instance, allowed ... Read more
Compelling, in-depth analysis of Shaker villages that sheds light on how communal attitudes helped to liberate Shaker women. Drawing on archival material from Shaker members, observers, and apostates, noted historian Suzanne R. Thurman offers a scholarly yet eminently readable study of life in two of the oldest, most prominent American Shaker villages: the Harvard and Shirley communities of Massachusetts. Even as she delves into the complex fabric of Shaker social life, Thurman challenges traditional perceptions of gender roles within the community. Shaker spiritual and social ethics, she points out, strongly favored women. Celibacy and an androgynous theology, for instance, allowed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Women & Gender in North American Religions
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815629061
SKU
V9780815629061
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Ref
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About Suzanne R. Thurman
SUZANNE R. THURMAN teaches history at the University of Alabama, Huntsville. She has been published in many historical journals and is author of To Heal and to Serve: American Women Doctors on Medical Missions, 1869 to the Present.
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