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

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Title:

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

Author:

Foster, Lawrence, 1947-

Personal Author:

Foster, Lawrence, 1947-

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1991.

Physical Description:

xx, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Series:

Utopianism and communitarianism

Utopianism and communitarianism.

Language:

English

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.

Reading Level:

1640 Lexile.

Corporate Subject:

Shakers -- History -- 19th century.

Oneida Community -- History.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History -- 19th century.

Subject Term:

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.

Mormon Church -- United States -- History -- 19th century.

Women in Christianity -- History of doctrines -- 19th century.