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An ordered love : sex roles and sexuality in Victorian utopias : the Shakers, the Mormons, and Oneida Community

Presents the first detailed study of sex roles in the utopian communities that proposed alternatives to monogamous marriage: The Shakers (1779-1890), the Mormons (1843-90), and the Oneida Community (1848-79). Louis J. Kern argues that changes in sexual behaviour and roles for women occurred in ideological environments that assumed women were inferior and needed male guidance.
Print Book, English, c1981
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, c1981