Each mind a kingdom : American women, sexual purity, and the new thought movement, 1875-1920

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Each mind a kingdom : American women, sexual purity, and the new thought movement, 1875-1920

Beryl Satter

University of California Press, 2001

1st pbk. printing [ed.]

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Bibliography: p. 333-357

Includes index

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内容説明

The New Thought Movement was an enormously popular late nineteenth-century spiritual movement led largely by and for women. Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science is but one example of the fascinating range of these groups, which advocated a belief in mind over matter and espoused women's spiritual ability to purify the world. This work is the first to uncover the cultural implications of New Thought, embedding it in the intellectual traditions of nineteenth-century America, and illuminating its connections with the self-help and New Age enthusiasms of our own fin-de-siecle. Beryl Satter examines New Thought in all its complexity, presenting along the way a captivating cast of characters. In lively and accessible prose, she introduces the people, the institutions, the texts, and the ideas that comprised the New Thought movement. This fascinating social and intellectual history explores the complex relationships among social reform, alternative religion, medicine, and psychology which persist to this day.

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List of Charts and Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: New Thought in Late-Victorian America 1. The Era of Woman and the Problem of Desire 2. The Mother or the Warrior: Mind, Matter, Selfhood, and Desire in the Writings of Mary Baker Eddy and Warren Felt Evans 3* Emma Curtis Hopkins and the Spread of New Thought, 1885-1905 4* Sex and Desirelessness: the New Thought Novels of Helen Van-Anderson, Ursula Gestefeld, and Alice Bunker Stockham 5* Money and Desire: Helen Wilmans and the Reorientation of New Thought 6. New Thought and Early Progressivism 7* New Thought and Popular Psychology, 1905-1920 Conclusion: New Thought in American Culture after 1920 Notes Select Bibliography Index 359

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