Each mind a kingdom : American women, sexual purity, and the New Thought movement, 1875-1920 / Beryl Satter.

Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, [1999], ©1999.

xii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Introduction: New Thought in late-Victorian America -- The era of woman and the problem of desire -- The mother or the warrior: mind, matter, selfhood, and desire in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and Warren Felt Evans -- Emma Curtis Hopkins and the spread of New Thought, 1885-1905 -- Sex and desirelessness: the New Thought novels of Helen Van-Anderson, Ursula Gestefeld, and Alice Bunker Stockham -- Money and desire: Helen Wilmans and the reorientations of New Thought -- New thought and early progressivism -- New Thought and popular psychology, 1905-1920 -- Conclusion: New Thought in American culture after 1920.

Includes index and bibliography: p. 333-357.