Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century: English Women's Writing and the Public Sphere. By Katharine Gillespie. Pp. xii + 272. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. isbn 0 521 83063 X. £40/60
In this book, which has its origin in a Ph.D. dissertation, Katharine Gillespie finds in the writings of and about seventeenth-century English women preachers a foretaste of the political liberalism of Locke and Hobbes. She argues that their thinking offers elements of free-market philosophy, unders...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2005
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 770-772 |
| Review of: | Domesticity and dissent in the seventeenth century (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004) (Freeman, Jane)
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| Summary: | In this book, which has its origin in a Ph.D. dissertation, Katharine Gillespie finds in the writings of and about seventeenth-century English women preachers a foretaste of the political liberalism of Locke and Hobbes. She argues that their thinking offers elements of free-market philosophy, understandings of the separation of Church and State, and, above all, a sense of the individual as a self-possessed and self-determining agent. These strands, derived from the claim to a personal and immediate access to God, run counter, in Gillespie's account, to contemporary feminism which celebrates community and interrelationship and which seeks to find these values in early pioneers of women's freedom. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fli223 |