Women, family, and utopia : communal experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons / Lawrence Foster.
By: Foster, Lawrence
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TextSeries: Utopianism and communitarianism: Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1991Edition: First editionDescription: xx, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0815625359 (pbk. : acidfree paper); 0815625340 (hardback : acid-free paper)Subject(s): Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- 19th century | Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- 19th century | Christian communities -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Shakers -- History -- 19th century | Oneida Community -- History | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History -- 19th century | Mormon Church -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Women in Christianity -- History of doctrines -- 19th century | Gender roles | Role behaviorDDC classification: 307.77/4/0973 LOC classification: BT708 | .F67 1991Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-343) and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-343) and index.
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.
