Book of the Week: Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching

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What role and influence did Christian women have in 17th and 18th century America? Most people's answer to this question would be heavily colored by the image of Puritan women, who practiced a religion which idealized female submission to men in both this world and the next. These were not, however, the only Christian women in America - there were also many Quaker women, and they lead dramatically different lives.

Book of the Week: Daughters of Light: Quaker Women Preaching