Under the Veil : Feminism and Spirituality in Post-Reformation England and Europe.

By:

Quinsey, Katherine M

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.Description: 1 online resource (242 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781443839358
1443839353

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Under the Veil : Feminism and Spirituality in Post-Reformation England and Europe.DDC classification:

200.820903

LOC classification:

BL458 .U53 2012

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Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; JULIE HIRST; SYLVIA BROWN; ANN M. LITTLE; MARIE COMISSO; KATHERINE M. QUINSEY; HUMBERTO GARCIA; MITA CHOUDHURY; PEGGY SCHALLER; ALICIA L. KERFOOT; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.

Summary: For women in early modern Europe, the Reformation and the Enlightenment entailed both new freedom and new restrictions. In response to an ideology that immured the female mind and spirit inside the body, women found in religion a hope for individual freedom, a sense of self-identity, and a justification for gender equality. Under the Veil: Feminism and Spirituality in Post-Reformation Europe invokes the veil's dual significance, as the marker of the religious woman, and as the metaphoric veil ...

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For women in early modern Europe, the Reformation and the Enlightenment entailed both new freedom and new restrictions. In response to an ideology that immured the female mind and spirit inside the body, women found in religion a hope for individual freedom, a sense of self-identity, and a justification for gender equality. Under the Veil: Feminism and Spirituality in Post-Reformation Europe invokes the veil's dual significance, as the marker of the religious woman, and as the metaphoric veil ...