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Women, family, and utopia : communal experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons

Author: Lawrence Foster
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1991.
Series: Utopianism and communitarianism.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st ed
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Lawrence Foster
ISBN: 0815625359 9780815625353 0815625340 9780815625346
OCLC Number: 23179920
Description: xx, 353 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents: Religion, sexuality, and women's roles : alternative family and sexual systems in nineteenth-century America --
Celibacy and feminism : the Shakers and equality for women --
Shaker spiritualism and Salem witchcraft : social perspectives on trance and possession phenomena --
Had prophecy failed? : contrasting views of the Millerites and Shakers --
The psychology of free love : sexuality in the Oneida Community --
Free love and feminism : John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Community --
The rise and fall of utopia : the Oneida Community crises of 1852 and 1879 --
Between two worlds : plural marriage and the experiences of Mormon women in Illinois during the early 1840s --
James J. Strang : the prophet who failed --
Polygamy and the frontier : Mormon women in early Utah --
From activism to domesticity : the changing role of Mormon women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries --
A "permanent revolution"? : reflections on the prospects for radical social change.
Series Title: Utopianism and communitarianism.
Responsibility: Lawrence Foster.

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