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Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought
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by Beryl Satter


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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-sicle.

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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In a memoir written in 1899, the women's suffrage, social purity, and temperance activist Mary Livermore described the closing decades of the nineteenth century as a thrilling time for American women: "Great organizations of women for missionary work were formed, and managed solely by themselves.

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"Firmly grounded in social history, Satter's work reanimates a set of ideas that have been largely lost from view and demonstrates both their historical efficacy and their centrality to an understanding of the cultural and social transformations of the turn of the century."--Amy Schrager Lang, author of Prophetic Women

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  • Title Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920
  • Author Beryl Satter
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Pages 394
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-05-14
  • ISBN 9780520229273 / 0520229274
  • Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.94 x 6.05 x 1 in (22.71 x 15.37 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Religious Orientation: New Age
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: New Age
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98038227
  • Dewey Decimal Code 289.980

About the author

Beryl Satter is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey.
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