Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920
- ISBN-10
- 0520229274
- ISBN-13
- 9780520229273
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 382
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-05-14
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Beryl Satter
Description
"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
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