Mother's First-Born Daughters Early Shaker Writings on Women and Religion

Jean M. Humez is Professor Emerita of Womens Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she taught courses in both womens studies and American studies, and chaired the Womens Studies Department. She designed and taught an undergraduate Women and the Media course early in her career, and through her interest in media text analysis came to collaborate with Gail Dines on this book. She has also published books and articles on African American womens spiritual and secular autobiographies, and on women and gender in Shaker religion. Her most recent book is Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories.