Women: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons

by Lawrence Foster

Book Overview

Why would thousands of Americans before the Civil War have joined new religious movements that rejected conventional monogamous marriage in favor of alternative life-styles? The Shakers created a celibate system that gave women full equality with men in religious leadership. The Oneida Perfectionists set up a form of group marriage, or "free love," that radically changed relations between the sexes. And the Mormons eventually introduced a form...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815625340
• ISBN13: 9780815625346
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"