Women, Family, and Utopia Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons

Name: Women, Family, and Utopia Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons
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ISBN: 9780815625353

ISBN-10: 0815625359

ISBN-13: 9780815625353

Edition: 1991

Authors: Lawrence Foster

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An examination of women's roles, family relationships, and sexuality in three unorthodox 19th-century communal experiments, with analysis of the implications such systems may have for present-day Americans concerned with the sense of crisis in family life and sex roles.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Religion, Sexuality, and Women's Roles


The Shakers



Celibacy and Feminism



Shaker Spiritualism and Salem Witchcraft



Had Prophecy Failed?


The Oneida Community



The Psychology of Free Love Sexuality in the Oneida Community



Free Love and Feminism



The Rise and Fall of Utopia


The Mormons



Between Two Worlds



James J. Strang



Polygamy and the Frontier



From Activism to Domesticity


Conclusion



A "Permanent Revolution"?


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index