Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons (Utopianism and Communitarianism)

by Lawrence Foster

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.

• ISBN13: 9780815625346
• Publish Date: 1 January 1992
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Syracuse University Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 432
• Language: English