Quakerism granted women and men full equality in religious practice

Evidence

The Quakers, far more than the other Protestant sects, gave both women and men full equality. Quakerism, growing out of discontent with Puritanism, began to spread in southern and eastern England around 1655, carried not only by men but also women preachers, such as Anne Blaykling, Mary Fisher, Dorothy Waugh, Jane Waugh, and Mary Pennington. Women, some of whom left their families behind, became traveling preachers, bearing the Quaker message not only all over England but as far as the Ottoman Empire. Under the leadership of George Fox, separate meeting houses were established, administered, and attended solely by women throughout England. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 941

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Christianity granted women equality only by denying their flesh — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 367; Radical Protestant sects offered women greater religious participation than orthodox churches — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 601

Broader Connections

• Radical Protestant sects offered women greater religious participation than orthodox churches #expands (0.85) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 601
• Christianity granted women equality only by denying their flesh #qualifies (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 367