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Women and Spirituality in the Writing of More, Wollstonecraft, Stanton, and Eddy by Arleen M. Ingham is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Women and Spirituality in the Writing of More, Wollstonecraft, Stanton, and Eddy about?
This groundbreaking book explores the philosophical writing of four female reformers, identifying how their spiritual representations of the feminine attempted to authorize and empower women. Championing the benefits of well educated Christian women, Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Baker Eddy constructed an idiom through which to represent the spiritual equality of the male and female. Arleen M. Ingham critically investigates how these writers challenged historical identity formations and highlighted the potential for female influence in the private and public sphere. Review “To my knowledge, there is no other text available that compares and contrasts the writings of these women. Ingham demonstrates a keen understanding of the cultural and personal situation of the writers, literary genre, and theological bias of the women in this book. She even critiques one writer based upon the writings of another. She makes the women live for the reader. The author knows her subject well and has an enthusiasm for the writings of the women. She has chosen dozens of quotations as transitions or introductions and some of them are truly remarkable. The id
Who reads Women and Spirituality in the Writing of More, Wollstonecraft, Stanton, and Eddy?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Arleen M. Ingham
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780230109940
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Science
