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Author:   Holly Faith Nelson ,  Adrea Johnson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.650kg
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9781041183426

ISBN 10:   1041183429
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   01 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, List of Figures, 1. Feminism and Faith in the Lives and Works of Late Medieval and Early Modern Women: An Introduction, 2. Teresa de Cartagena's Feminist Rhetoric and Theology, 3. Feminism and Italian Sacred Writings: A Growing Space for Female Authorship, 1500-1600, 4. Shaftesbury, Women Writers, and Deism, 5. Mère Angélique Arnauld and the Paradoxes of Women's, 6. Nothing but a Union with God: Queer Religiosity in Mary Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, 7. A Plant in God's House: Botanical Metaphors in Early Modern Women's Poetry, 8. The Christian Housewife and Midwife: Healthcare and Women's Authority in Early Modern Almanacs and Manuals, 9. The Rhetoric and Aesthetic of Indirection: Women, Religion, and Power in the Works of Margaret Cavendish, 10. Grief, Commemoration, and the Poetics of Disruption in the Works of Frances Norton, 11. Anne Dowriche and Elizabeth Cary as Writers of Early Modern History, 12. Both Enabling and Limiting: Religion as a Sponsor of Feminism in the Eighteenth-Century Labouring-Class Verses of Collier, 13. Freer than any Ladys in the universe: Theologies of Liberty and Legalism in the Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 14. I Find No Curse in the Gospel of Christ: Private Judgment and the Gendering of Church Discipline in the Early American Republic, Notes on Contributors, Bibliography, Index

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Holly Faith Nelson, Ph.D., is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Gender Studies Institute at Trinity Western University. Her work on women’s writing, gender and literature, and religion and literature has appeared in a wide range of journals and essay collections over the past two decades Adrea Johnson, Ph.D., specializes in women’s religious writing of the long nineteenth century. She also holds an M.A. in Theology from Regent College. Her article on the hymnologist John Mason Neale appeared in Crux. She currently teaches at the University of the Fraser Valley and Regent College.

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