Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Sylvia Brown -- Introduction / Sylvia Brown -- Prophetic Cries At Whitehall: The Gender Dynamics Of Early Quaker Women’S Injurious Speech / Stavreva Kirilka -- The Radical Travels Of Mary Fisher: Walking And Writing In The Universal Light / Sylvia Brown -- Seven Thousand \'Hand-Maids And Daughters Of The Lord\': Lincolnshire And Cheshire Quaker Women’S Anti-Tithe Protests In Late Interregnum And Restoration England / Stephen A. Kent -- \'Truly Dear Hearts\': Family And Spirituality In Quaker Women’S Writings 1680-1750 / Sheila Wright -- \'Break Down The Walls Of Flesh\': Anna Trapnel, John James, And Fifth Monarchist Self-Representation / Naomi Baker -- A \'Remarkable Female Of Womankind\': Gender, Scripture, And Knowledge In The Writings Of M. Marsin / Sarah Apetrei -- \'Mother Of Love\': Spiritual Maternity In The Works Of Jane Lead (1624-1704) / Julie Hirst -- \'I Wish To Be Nothing\': The Role Of Self-Denial In The Mystical Theology Of Anna Maria Van Schurman / Bo Karen Lee -- Mouldered Away In The Tower With The Fruit Of The Womb? On The Treatment Of Pregnant Anabaptist Women Under Criminal Law / Marion Kobelt-Groch -- \'They Are But Women\': Mary Ward, 1585-1645 / Pamela Ellis -- Cherchez La Femme: Radical Religion In The Life And Poetry Of Luisa De Carvajal / José Manuel González -- \'A Wise And Godly Sybilla\': Viscountess Ranelagh And The Politics Of International Protestantism / Ruth Connolly -- Index / Sylvia Brown.

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This collection of twelve new essays explores the role of women and gender in a broad range of ‘radical’ religious movements of the post-Reformation. Organized into three themed divisions, the first examines the activism of female Quakers in their public performances as preachers and petitioners, in their global travels, and in their domestic lives; the second examines early modern prophetesses and their radical revisions of scripture, gender, body, and voice; and the third concerns women who, in diverse ways, crossed boundaries, including the confessional boundaries of Europe. A strength of this volume is its comparative re-examination of the term ‘radical’. German Anabaptists are discussed alongside unorthodox nuns with the aim of understanding how gender factors into innovative and oppositional religion. Contributors include: Sarah Apetrei, Naomi Baker, Sylvia Brown, Ruth Connolly, Pamela Ellis, José Manuel González, Julie Hirst, Stephen A. Kent, Marion Kobelt-Groch, Bo Karen Lee, Kirilka Stavreva, and Sheila Wright.