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

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ISBN: 9780807814437 | 0807814431
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Copyright: 2/1/1981

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Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 3
The True Plan of Life: Nineteenth-Century American Attitudes toward the Self and Sexuality	p. 17
The Problem of the Self	p. 19
The Violation of Truth and Nature: Some Anxieties and Ambiguities of Nineteenth-Century American Culture about Sexuality and the "True" Woman	p. 34
Get Thee behind Me, Satan: Contemporary Critical Perspectives on the Shakers, Mormons, and Oneida Community	p. 50
Hymenius Bound: Shaker Sexuality in Ideology and Practice	p. 69
Flesh Is the Forbidden Fruit: the Theological Background and Its Relationship to Sexual Ideology	p. 76
Under the Fig Leaf: Sexual Regulations and Practices among the Shakers	p. 91
Renovated Woman: the Meaning of Shaker Ideology and Sexual Behavior from the Perspective of the Relationship between the Sexes	p. 114
Celestial Marriage: Mormon Sexuality and Sex Roles in Ideology and Practice	p. 135
Sexual Resurrectionism: the Theological Foundations and Patriarchal Ideology of Mormon Polygamy	p. 144
Seven Women to One Man Shall Cling: the Ecclesiastical and Legalistic Aspects of Sexuality under Patriarchal Polygamy	p. 158
Many Wives and Concubines: the Practice of Patriarchal Polygamy	p. 170
Then Shall They Be Gods, Because They Have All Power, and the Angels Shall Be Subject to Them: an Evaluation of the System of Patriarchal Polygamy	p. 190
In the Eden of Heart-Love: Sexuality and Sex Roles of the Oneida Community in Ideology and Practice	p. 205
Whosoever Is Born of God Doth Not Commit Sin; for His Seed Remaineth in Him: the Theological and Ideological Foundations of Oneida Sexual Behavior	p. 219
A Tide of Living, Healthful Love: Sexual Practices at the Oneida Community	p. 235
Misbegotten Males: the Effect of Sexual Perfectionism on the Status and Roles of Women	p. 257
Distinguishing the Church from the World: Sectarian Communitarianism and Nineteenth-Century America	p. 281
A Part of the Blest Family Above: the Maternal-Familial Paradigm of Utopian Society and Its Relation to Broader Cultural Patterns	p. 283
A Little World of Our Own: the Value and Function of Sectarian Utopianism in Nineteenth-Century American Culture	p. 301
Afterword	p. 314
Notes	p. 317
Bibliography	p. 395
Index	p. 421
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Ordered Love : Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias--The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community

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