6-Volume Set

Women and BeliefHISTORY OF FEMINISM

Edited and with a new introduction by Jessica Cox, University ofWales, Lampeter, UK and Mark Llewellyn, University of Liverpool, UK

Over recent years, research into religious belief during the Victorian period and the earlytwentieth century has grown in diversity and importance. The centrality of faith-baseddiscourses to women of the period has long been recognized by scholars in the field. But untilnow relatively little significance has been attached to the fundamental relationship betweenwomen’s faith and women’s rights. This new title in the History of Feminism series, co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse, remedies that omission. Women and Belief,1852–1928 is a six-volume collection of primary materials covering a wide range of opinionsabout women, their self-identity, and the combination of their spiritual and political beliefs.

Addressing the most debated aspects of women’s religious, social, cultural, and political rights,the collection adopts an historical overview of the period and provides an authoritativerepresentation of the wide body of literature written by and about women’s faith. Beginningwith and ending with an economist’s psychoanalytic study of female belief from 1928, Women and Belief, 1852–1928 provides a unique collection of different viewpoints. It bringstogether the work of women writers, theologians, philosophers, and economic and culturalhistorians to illustrate the multiplicity of voices and opinions on the issues of suffrage andreligious faith. This diversity is equally reflected in the broad geographical coverage of thecollection which draws on works not only from the United Kingdom and United States butalso includes materials from Canada and India, and moves beyond the Christian into thespheres of theosophy, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. The gathered materialsinclude works of non-fiction, poetry, analytical works, satires, pamphlets, sermons, spiritual(auto)biography, and periodical articles.

Making readily available such materials—which are currently very difficult for scholars,researchers, and students across the globe to locate and use—Women and Belief, 1852–1928 isa veritable treasure-trove. The gathered works are reproduced in facsimile, giving users a strongsense of immediacy to the texts and permitting citation to the original pagination. And withdetailed and comprehensive introductory and contextual material in each volume illustratingthe ways in which the materials chart the gradual evolution of feminist thinking about belief,spirituality, and faith that directly fed into the emerging discourses of political and socialrights for women, the collection is destined to be welcomed as a vital reference and research resource.

Routledge Major Works

RoutledgeSeptember 2009234x156: 2,400ppSet Hb: 978-0-415-47218-0

1852–1928

1. Julia Kavanagh, Women of Christianity, Exemplary for Acts ofPiety and Charity ... with Portraits (London, 1852) (474pp.)

2. Luther Lee, Woman’s Right to Preach the Gospel (1853)(22pp.)

3. Fred Folio, A Book for the Times: Lucy Boston, or, Woman’sRights and Spiritualism: Illustrating the Follies and Delusions ofthe Nineteenth Century (New York: J. C. Derby, 1855)(406pp. including illustrations)

4. William Landels, Woman’s Sphere and Work, Considered inthe Light of Scripture: A Book for Young Women (London:James Nisbet and Co., 1859) (240pp.)

5. William Kay, The Influence of Christianity on the Position andCharacter of Woman: A Sermon (Calcutta, 1859) (55pp.)

6. Catherine Mumford Booth, Female Ministry: Or, Woman’sRight to Preach the Gospel (London, 1859) (23pp.)

7. Richard Seymour, Woman’s Work: A Speech Delivered in theLower House of Convocation on Tuesday, July 19, 1861(London, 1862) (24pp.)

8. I. T. Armstrong, Plea for Modern Prophetesses (Glasgow,1866) (66pp.)

9. Anon, Female Franchise. Have Women Immortal Souls? ThePopular Belief Disputed ... By a Clerk in Holy Orders (London,1868) (19pp.)

10. Horace Bushnell, Women’s Suffrage: The Reform AgainstNature (1869) (184pp.)

11. Annie Rollo Stagg, The Importance of Religion to Woman(Stratford, Ontario, 1875) (69pp.)

12. J. G. Mandley, Woman Outside Christendom: An Exposition ofthe Influence Exerted by Christianity on the Social Position andHappiness of Women (London, 1880) (159pp.)

13. Elizabeth Machardie, What is Spiritualism? A Paper Read atthe Annual Conference of the Christian Women’s Union, Heldin Glasgow (London, 1884) (16pp.)

14. Louisa Samson, Why Women Should be Secularists (London,1891) (16pp.)

15. Lucy Helen Soulsby, Religious Education for Women (1894)(28pp.)

16. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Preface and Introduction to TheWoman’s Bible (1895) (9pp.)

17. B. H. Kare, How is Woman Treated by Man and Religion?(Bombay, 1896) (12pp.)

18. Eliza Burt Gamble, The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex inReligion (1897) (extract) (20pp.)

19. Lena Tyack, Joyce Maxwell’s Mistakes (1899) (63pp.)

20. Ellen Battelle Dietnick, Women in the Early ChristianMinistry (1897) (148pp.)

21. Frederick James Gould, Will Women Help? An Appeal toWomen to Assist in Liberating Modern Thought fromTheological Bonds (London, 1900) (100pp.)

22. Florence Caroline Dixie, ‘Towards Freedom: An Appeal toThoughtful Men and Women’, The Agnostic Journal, 1904–5(14pp.)

23. Emily Hickey, Thoughts for Creedless Women (London, 1906)(32pp.)

24. Margaret Mordecai, Phases of Progress: A Study of theEvolution of Religion, Education and Woman (London: Sands& Co., 1910) (164pp.)

25. Katherine Bushnell, God’s Word to Women (1910) (70pp.)

26. Joseph Keating, S.J., Christianity and ‘Woman’s Rights’(Catholic Social Guild Pamphlets No. 16) (London:Catholic Truth Society, 1912) (24pp.)

27. The Religious Aspect of the Women’s Movement: Being a Seriesof Addresses Delivered at Meetings at the Queen’s Hall, London,on June 19, 1912 (London: Collegium, 1912) (67pp.)

28. Syed Ameer Ali, The Legal Position of Women in Islam (1912)(47pp.)

29. Charlotte Despard, Theosophy and the Woman’s Movement(Riddle of Life Series No. IV) (London: TheosophicalPublishing Society, 1913) (59pp. including illustrations)

30. Chapman Cohen, Woman and Christianity: The Subjectionand Exploitation of a Sex (London: The Pioneer Press, 1919)(96pp.)

31. George Whitehead, Religion and Woman (London: SecularSociety, 1928) (extract) (13pp.)

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Women and Belief 1852–1928 HISTORY OF FEMI

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VOLUME II

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VOLUME IV

VOLUME V

Irish Feminisms, 1825–1930Edited by Mary Pierse

Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse, the History ofFeminism series makes key archival source material readilyavailable to scholars, researchers, and students of women’s andgender studies, women’s history, and women’s writing, as wellas those working in allied and related fields. Selected andintroduced by expert editors, the gathered materials arereproduced in facsimile, giving users a strong sense ofimmediacy to the texts and permitting citation to the originalpagination.

This new title in the series brings together a unique selection ofthe multiple feminisms articulated by Irish writers between1825 and 1930, a ‘long Victorian’ period. The five volumesforeground a multiplicity of beliefs and attitudes from novels,poetry, short stories, newspaper and journal articles, and essays,both by relatively unknown and by more celebrated writers(such as Lady Gregory, Lady Wilde, and the Parnells).

With its comprehensive introductions, references, andbiographical notes (which furnish vital backgroundinformation), this ground-breaking collection is destined to bewelcomed as a treasure-trove by all serious scholars andstudents of Gender and Irish Studies—as well as those workingin Victorian and Literary Studies.

November 2009: 234x156: 1,600pp5-Volume Set: 978-0-415-47529-7

Women’s Economic Thought inthe Eighteenth Century Edited by Edith Kuiper

In the history of economics, women writers were all butinvisible until a few decades ago. Although much work hasnow been recuperated, the writings on economics ofeighteenth-century women authors have yet to be brought fullyto light.

This new three-volume collection from Routledge remedies thatomission and makes key archival source material readilyavailable to scholars, researchers, and students. Thiscomprehensive compilation of eighteenth-century works bywomen writers includes several texts translated into English forthe first time, such as an important critique on Adam Smith’sTheory of Moral Sentiments (1759) by Sophie de GrouchyCondorcet.

October 2010: 234x156: 1,200pp3-Volume Set: 978-0-415-49571-4

Victorian and Edwardian Anti-FeminismEdited by Valerie Sanders and Lucy Delap

The British women’s movement of the nineteenth and earlytwentieth century has attracted huge popular, political, andscholarly interest. This has sometimes obscured the verywidespread—and probably much greater—circulation andimpact of anti-feminist writers. The temporal scope of the four-volume set is broad and covers the Victorian and Edwardianeras, and beyond into the 1920s. The four volumes are dividedinto eleven parts. The collected materials are complemented byan introduction which contextualizes the material both interms of the prominent individuals who contributed to anti-feminism, the themes and ideas of anti-feminism, and thepublishing and reading landscapes within which these textscirculated. The Introduction also links the primary sources tothe critical secondary literature, and makes suggestions forfurther reading. To enable easy navigation of this eclectic,neglected, and fascinating material, Victorian and EdwardianAnti-Feminism is fully indexed and includes an appendixdescribing the political persuasion and publishing details ofeach periodical represented. It is destined to be welcomed as anessential reference resource for all those seeking to understandthe reception and development of the early British women’smovement.

October 2009: 234x156: 1,600pp4-Volume Set: 978-0-415-49817-3

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