Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Shaker Terminology -- Introduction -- Part 1: Joining the Shakers -- Chapter 1: Ann Lee -- Chapter 2: The Short Marriage of Mother Lucy Wright -- Chapter 3: Why Women Joined the Shakers, 1780-1840 -- Chapter 4: Shaker Girlhood -- Chapter 5: Chastity and the Shaker Cap -- Part 2: Work and Worship -- Chapter 6: The World's Views of Shaker Sisters, 1782-1865 -- Chapter 7: Work, Reciprocity, Equality, and Union -- Chapter 8: Gendered Conflict among the Shakers -- Chapter 9: Abuse by Spirit Messages during the Era of Manifestations -- Chapter 10: The New Lebanon Deaconesses' Bonnet Business, 1835-1850 -- Conclusions on Shaker Equality of the Sexes -- Notes -- Index -- Illustrations follow on Page 84 -- Back Cover.