Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons / Edition 1

by Lawrence Foster

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815625353
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	12/28/1991
Series:	Utopianism and Communitarianism Series
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.08(d)
Lexile:	1640L (what's this?)

About the Author

Lawrence Foster is Associate Professor of American History at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. His earlier book, Religion and Sexuality, won a Mormon History Association "best book" award, and his articles have appeared in numerous publications.

Editorial Reviews

After highlighting and elaborating on his earlier research regarding relations between men and women in the early Shaker, Oneida Perfectionist, and Mormon movements, Foster further explores the ways in which these unorthodox experiments in communal living addressed issues of major contemporary concern such as the changing role of women, the nature of the family, and the impact of sexuality on society. Many of the chapters are revised from their original publication elsewhere. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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