Suzanne Thurman

O Sisters Ain't You Happy?: Gender, Family, and Community Among the Harvard and Shirley Shakers, 1781-1918

O Sisters Ain't You Happy?: Gender, Family, and Community Among the Harvard and Shirley Shakers, 1781-1918

Inside the Shuttered Room: Verbal Abuse Through Poems and Photographs

Inside the Shuttered Room is a collection of original poems and photographs by a verbal abuse survivor. They reflect the artist's feelings from inside verbal abuse, recreating images and evoking emotions that verbal abuse victims experience. Her goal is two-fold: to help non-abuse victims understand...

O Sisters Ain't You Happy?: Gender, Family, and Community Among the Harvard and Shirley Shakers, 1781-1918 (Women and Gender in Religion)

Drawing on archival material from Shaker members, observers, and apostates, noted historian Suzanne R. Thurman offers a scholarly yet eminently readable study of life in two of the oldest, most prominent American Shaker villages: the Harvard and Shirley communities of massachusetts. Even as she delv...

Church History (Volume 66 Number 4, December 1997)

The central purpose of the American Society of Church History (ASCH) is the scholarly study of the history of Christianity and its relationship to surrounding cultures in all periods, locations and contexts.

"O Sisters Ain't You Happy?" Gender, Family, and Community Among the Harvard and Shirley Shakers, 1781-1918