Quaker Studies Volume 9 | Issue 2 Article 4 2005 'The nfeI rior Parts of the Body': The evelopmeD nt and Role of Women's Meetings in the Early Quaker Movement Gareth Shaw University of Hull,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, and the History of Christianity Commons Recommended Citation Shaw, Gareth (2005) "'The nfeI rior Parts of the Body': The eD velopment and Role of Women's Meetings in the Early Quaker Movement," Quaker Studies: Vol. 9: Iss. 2, Article 4. Available at: http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/vol9/iss2/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Quaker Studies by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. 190 QUAKER STUDIES QUAKER STUDIES 912 (2005) [191-203] ISSN 1363-013X texts and the expansion of the American literary canon. She is co-editor of 'A Centre <?[Wonders': the body in early America (Cornell University Press, 2001) and is currently working on a book manuscript titled The Body as Testimony: Quaker womens prophesyings in early American culture and text. Michele is a member of Haddonfield Monthly Meeting in New Jersey. ' Mailing address: Department of English, The College of New Jersey, PO Box 'THE INFERIOR PARTS OF THE BODY : THE DEVELOPMENT AND 7718, Ewing, NJ 08628, USA. E-mail:
[email protected] ' ROLE OF WOMEN S MEE TINGS IN THE EARLY QUAKER MOVEMENT1 Gareth Shaw University of Hull,England ABSTRACT This article is a study of the development and role of early Quaker women's Meetings during the second half of the seventeenth century.