Women in Spiritual and Communitarian Societies in the United States (Utopianism and Communitarianism) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815625693 ISBN 13: 9780815625698

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 1993

Synopsis

A survey of women's experiences in the American communitarian movement from the 19th century to the present. This volume covers a wide range of religious, secular and modern interactive-psychology communities, focusing on women in the complexity and multiplicity of their roles.

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Sojourner Truth had attended camp meetings and had exhorted the crowds many times before. Now, however, preaching was her primary work and the way Truth hoped to spend the rest of her working life. Throughout her travels Truth searched for a place in which she could settle. Although she had experienced great difficulties and disappointment in The Kingdom community, Truth knew that a community that was experimenting with new social relationships might give greater scope to an African-American woman. She was looking for a congenial community in which a woman of her abilities would be accepted.

From Library Journal:

This is a delightful contribution to "the most recent scholarship on women in spiritual and communal societies." Essays explore women's experiences from the 18th century to the present in Shaker, Mormon, Catholic, Hasidic, Owenite, and Hutterite communities as well as at the Woman's Commonwealth, Brook Farm, Oneida, Twin Oaks, and the Farm. The result is a careful study of women's work, sexuality, marriage, child rearing, education, artistic expression, and politics in the context of these diverse experimental communities. The 15 contributors to this collection are feminist scholars primarily from the social sciences and the communities. Recent complementary titles include Lawrence Foster's Women, Family, and Utopia (Syracuse Univ. Pr., 1991) and Carol A. Kolmerten's Women in Utopia (Indiana Univ. Pr., 1990). This book is accessible to informed general readers but is especially appropriate for undergraduate and graduate collections in U.S. and women's history and gender studies.
- Linda Carlisle, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib. at Edwardsville
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About this edition

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0815625693
• ISBN 13: 9780815625698
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Chmielewski Wendy, Kern Louis, Klee-Hartzell Women In Spiritual And Communitarian Societies In The United States Marlyn