Each mind a kingdom : American women, sexual purity, and the New Thought movement, 1875-1920 / Beryl Satter.
By: Satter, Beryl
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TextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: xii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0520217659 (alk. paper)Subject(s): New Thought -- History | Women -- Religious life -- United States | Eddy, Mary Baker, 1821-1910 | Christian Science -- United States -- History | Twelve-step programs -- History | United States -- Church history | Sex role -- United States -- History | Feminism -- United States -- History | Sex customs -- United States -- History | United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918 | United States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-1918DDC classification: 289.9/8/0973 LOC classification: BF639 | .S124 1999Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-357) and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-357) and index.
Introduction: New Thought in late-Victorian America -- The era of woman and the problem of desire -- The mother or the warrior: mind, matter, selfhood, and desire in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and Warren Felt Evans -- Emma Curtis Hopkins and the spread of New Thought, 1885-1905 -- Sex and desirelessness: the New Thought novels of Helen Van-Anderson, Ursula Gestefeld, and Alice Bunker Stockham -- Money and desire: Helen Wilmans and the reorientations of New Thought -- New thought and early progressivism -- New Thought and popular psychology, 1905-1920 -- Conclusion: New Thought in American culture after 1920.