Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the MormonsAn 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. |
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