Ordered Love Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias--The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community

Name: Ordered Love Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias--The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community
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ISBN: 9780807840740

ISBN-10: 0807840742

ISBN-13: 9780807840740

Edition: 1981

Authors: Louis J. Kern

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An Ordered Love is the first detailed study of sex roles in the utopian communities that proposed alternatives to monogamous marriage: The Shakers (1779-1890), the Mormons (1843-90), and the Oneida Community (1848-79). The lives of men and women changed substantially when they joined one of the utopian communities. Louis J. Kern challenges the commonly held belief that Mormon polygamy was uniformly downgrading to women and that Oneida pantagamy and Shaker celibacy were liberating for them. Rather, Kern asserts that changes in sexual behavior and roles for women occurred in ideological environments that assumed women were inferior and needed male guidance. An elemental distrust of women…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/9/1981
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 445
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Louis J. Kern received his Ph.D. in history from Rutgers University and has taught American Studies, intellectual-cultural history, and literature at a number of colleges.