Women, Religion and Feminism in Britain, 1750-1900

KRISTIN G. DOERN Lecturer in Historical Studies, Bath Spa University College GULNAR (GULI) FRANCIS-DEHQANI PhD, University of Bristol JOYCE GOODMAN Reader in History of Education, King's Alfred's College, Winchester CAMILLA LEACH Postgraduate Student, King Alfred's College, Winchester LAURA LAUER Author HELEN MATHERS Research Fellow, Department of History, Sheffield University SUZANNE RICKARD Author JUDITH ROWBOTHAM Senior Lecturer in History, Nottingham Trent University ANNE STOTT Associate Lecturer, Open University and Sessional Lecturer, Birkbeck College, University of London MARTHA VICINUS Eliza M.Moshe Distinguished University Professor of English, History and Women's Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA RUTH WATTS Reader, History of Education, University of Birmingham LINDA WILSON Lecturer, School of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Gloucestershire SHEILA WRIGHT Lecturer, Centre of Continuing Education, University of York

This collection of new essays examines the pervasive influence of religion upon the lives and strategies of late eighteenth and nineteenth century women activists.This collection of new essays examines the pervasive influence of religion upon the lives and strategies of late eighteenth and nineteenth century women activists. The book discusses a wide range of issues from female education to lesbian passion, and the authors demonstrate through detailed case-studies, women's skilful negotiation of the boundaries between personal religious beliefs, moral attitudes and social action.