Each Mind a Kingdom - American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920

Informationen zum Autor Beryl Satter is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University! Newark! New Jersey. Klappentext "Firmly grounded in social history! Satter's work reanimates a set of ideas that have been largely lost from view and demonstrates both their historical efficacy and their centrality to an understanding of the cultural and social transformations of the turn of the century."-Amy Schrager Lang! author of Prophetic Women Zusammenfassung The New Thought Movement was a popular late 19th century spiritual movement for women. This work uncovers the cultural implications of New Thought, embedding it in the intellectual traditions of 19th-century America, and illuminating its connections with modern self-help and New Age enthusiasms. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Charts and Illustrations  Acknowledgments  Introduction: New Thought in Late-Victorian America  1. The Era of Woman and the Problem of Desire  2. The Mother or the Warrior: Mind, Matter, Selfhood, and Desire in the Writings of Mary Baker Eddy and Warren Felt Evans  3· Emma Curtis Hopkins and the Spread of New Thought, 1885-1905  4· Sex and Desirelessness: the New Thought Novels of Helen Van-Anderson, Ursula Gestefeld, and Alice Bunker Stockham  5· Money and Desire: Helen Wilmans and the Reorientation of New Thought  6. New Thought and Early Progressivism  7· New Thought and Popular Psychology, 1905-1920  Conclusion: New Thought in American Culture after 1920  Notes  Select Bibliography  Index 359

Product details

• Authors: Beryl Satter, Satter Beryl
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.05.2001
• EAN: 9780520229273
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22927-3
• No. of pages: 394
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Cults, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Women, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Christianity, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, Christian & quasi-Christian cults & sects, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, Christian and quasi-Christian cults and sects