An Ordered Love: Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias--The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community

Author: Louis J. Kern
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback
Condition: Used
Pages: 445.0
Published: Feb 09, 1981

Louis J. Kern’s An Ordered Love examines sex, gender, and power in three 19th-century utopias the celibate Shakers, polygamous Mormons, and free-love Oneida Community. Challenging myths of liberation, he argues that each system enforced patriarchal ideals and redefined women’s roles under male authority. A compelling intersection of gender history and utopian sociology.