Faculty

Satter, Beryl
Beryl Satter's first book, Each Mind a Kingdom:
American Women, Sexual Purity and the New
Thought Movement, 1875-1920
(University of California Press, 1999) examined the relationship between New Thought, a popular, proto-New Age religious movement, the late nineteenth-century women's movement, and Progressivism. It traced the ways that New Thought enabled its adherents to engage with and sometimes contest contemporary ideas about gender, race and sexuality. It also showed the influence of ideas about gender, race and sexuality on American religion, health and politics. It outlined the