Women and religious writing in early modern England

Description:

"The seventeenth-century Protestant women discussed in this book range across the religio-political and social spectrums, and yet all display an affinity with modern feminist theologians. Rather than being victims of a patriarchal gender ideology, these women were both active negotiators of gender and active participants in wider theological debates. By placing women's religious writing in a broad theological and socio-political context, Erica Longfellow challenges traditional critical assumptions about the role of gender in shaping religion and politics."--Jacket.

subjects: Christianity and literature,  English Christian literature,  English Christian poetry,  English literature,  History,  History and criticism,  Intellectual life,  Protestant authors,  Protestant women,  Women and literature,  Women authors,  Feminism,  Christianity,  Literature, women authors,  Religion and literature,  Religious aspects

Places: England

Times: 17th century,  Early modern, 1500-1700