Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons (Utopianism and Communitarianism)
Lawrence Foster explores how the Shakers, Oneida Community, and Mormons approached women, family, and communal life. Placing these movements within the broader history of utopianism and communitarianism, the book offers a comparative study of their distinctive social experiments.
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Women, Family, and Utopia examines communal experiments associated with the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons.
Lawrence Foster focuses on the roles of women and the organization of family life within these communities.
The book considers utopianism and communitarianism through a comparative historical perspective.
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