Religion, feminism, and the problem of agency: Reflections on eighteenth-century Quakerism

Signs

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 149-177

  Mack, Phyllis ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 27744602718     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/375679     Document Type: Review

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