Women and Quakerism in the 17th Century

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Publisher: Sessions of York

ISBN: 1850720878

Author	Christine Trevett
Pub Date	01/01/1991

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Quaker views on women have always been considered progressive in their own time (beginning in the 17th century), and in the late 19th century this tendency bore fruit in the prominence of Quaker women in the American women's rights movement. The early history of attitudes towards gender in the Religious Society of Friends (aka Quakers) is particularly notable for providing for one of the largest and most equitable roles for women in the Christian tradition at the time, despite not endorsing universal equality until much later.