@inbook{7935c955b8134c8b8928874b145ce1e8,
title = "Shakers as Feminists? Shakerism as a vanguard in the Antebellum American Search for Female Autonomy and Independence",
abstract = "The Shakers are a small communitarian and mystical sect barely clinging onto existence today, which flourished at its heyday in the USA from the 1770s to the 1890s. However, the cultural significance of the Shakers has always far outweighed their numerical strength. They profoundly influenced social, political and artistic thought through their simple but harmonious music, architecture and furnishings. The book Locating the Shakers. Cultural Origins and Legacies of an American Religious Movement assesses that influence through publishing the proceedings of a specialist conference on the subject held at the University of Exeter. My contribution {"}Shakers as Feminists? Shakerism as a Vanguard in the Antebellum American Search for Female Autonomy and Independence{"} explores the particular approaches taken by this communitarian group to the interrelations between the sexes by focusing on the context of wider trends which took shape in nineteenth-century America.",
keywords = "Shakers, Religious history, American religious history, Feminism, American feminism, American religious sects, American utopian communities, Communitarianism",
author = "Alison Newby",
note = "The research which made this contribution possible was undertaken with the financial support of postgraduate scholarships awarded by the University of Manchester and the ESRC.",
year = "1990",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-0859893510",
series = "Exeter Studies in American and Commonwealth Arts",
publisher = "University of Exeter Press",
pages = "96--105",
editor = "Mick Gidley and Kate Bowles",
booktitle = "Locating the Shakers. Cultural Origins and Legacies of an American Religious Movement",
address = "United Kingdom",
}