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In Domesticity And Dissent Katharine Gillespie Examines Writings By Seventeenth-century English Puritan Women Who Fought For Religious, Freedom. Seeking The Right To Preach And Prophesy, Women Such As Katherine Childley, Anna Trapnel, Elizabeth Poole, And Anne Wentworth Envisioned The Modern Political Principles Of Toleration, The Separation Of Church From State, Privacy, And Individualism. Gillespie Argues That Their Sermons, Prophecies, And Petitions Illustrate The Fact That These Liberal Theories Did Not Originate Only With Such Well-known Male Thinkers As John Locke And Thomas Hobbes. Rather, They Emerged Also From A Group Of Determined Female Religious Dissenters Who Used The Bible To Reassess Traditional Definitions Of Womanhood, Public Speech, And Religious And Political Authority. Gillespie Takes The Pamphlet Literatures Of The Seventeenth Century As Important Subjects For Analysis, And Her Book Contributes To The Growing Scholarship On The Revolutionary Writings That Emerged During The Volatile Years Of The Mid-seventeenth-century Civil War In England.--book Jacket. Sabrina Versus The State -- Born Of The Mother's Seed : Liberalism, Feminism, And Religious Separatism -- A

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Author

KATHARINE GILLESPIE, Gillespie, Katharine

Publisher

Cambridge, UK ; Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511187704

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction