American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality
Author: Catherine Tumber
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780847697496
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based largely on research in popular journals, self-help manuals, newspaper accounts, and archival collections, American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality demonstrates that the New Age movement first flourished more than a century ago during the Gilded Age under the mantle of 'New Thought'. Tumber pays close attention to the ways in which feminism became grafted, with varying degrees of success, to emergent forms of liberal culture in the late nineteenth century, and questions the value of the new age movement--then and now--to the pursuit of women's rights and democratic renewal. Visit our website for sample chapters!