Free Love in Utopia: John Humphrey Noyes and the Origin of the Oneida Community

by Lawrence Foster and George Wallingford Noyes

The "free love" Oneida Community, founded in New York state during the turbulent decades before the Civil War, practiced an extraordinary system of "complex marriage" as part of its sustained experiment in creating the kingdom of heaven on earth. For more than thirty years, two hundred adult members considered themselves heterosexually married to the entire community rather than to a single monogamous partner.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252026705
• ISBN13: 9780252026706
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.4"