| Author | Foster, Lawrence, 1947-
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| Title | Women, family, and utopia : communal experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons / Lawrence Foster.
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| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Published | Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1991.
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| Description | xx, 353 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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| Series | Utopianism and communitarianism
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| ISBN | 0-8156-2535-9 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0-8156-2534-0 (hardback : acid-free paper) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-343) and index.
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| Formatted Note | 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.
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| Subjects | Christian communities -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints -- History -- 19th century.
Mormon Church -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Oneida Community -- History.
Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- 19th century.
Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- 19th century.
Shakers -- History -- 19th century.
Women in Christianity -- History of doctrines -- 19th century.
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| LC Card Number | 91-8496 |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: HX 654 F757
mq29086: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 21973] |
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