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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