Bøger i Utopianism and Communitarianism serien

An examination of women's roles, family relationships, and sexuality in three unorthodox 19th-century communal experiments, with analysis of the implications such systems may have for present-day Americans concerned with the sense of crisis in family life and sex roles.

A look into the origins and practices of Rastafarianism. From the direct accounts of these early members, the author is able to reconstruct pivotal episodes in Rastafarian history to offer a look into a subgroup of Jamaican society whose beliefs took root in the social unrest of the 1930s.

A survey of women's experiences in the American communitarian movement from the 19th century to the present. This volume covers a wide range of religious, secular and modern interactive-psychology communities, focusing on women in the complexity and multiplicity of their roles.

This text analyses the impact of premigration origins, postmigration experiences and sponsor policies on the development of a cluster of Jewish colonies in southern New Jersey. It focuses on the transformation from agrarian, communal colonies to private mixed industrial-agricultural communities.

This satirical fantasy novel was ahead of its time in demonstrating the hazards awaiting a woman who dares to defy the gender roles assigned her. This allegory uses anagrams to establish an allegorical pattern which satirizes cultural norms and questions male authority.

The Oneida Community was one of the more unusual utopian social experiments in 19th-century America. This volume reproduces the diary of a Community member written in 1876-7. It deals with love, aggression, jealousy and the conflict between private desire and public good.

Radical in its day, this landmark utopian 1840 novel traces the journey of fictional British Lord Clarisdall to the exotic island nation of Icaria. To Clarisdell's amazement, devoid of competition or property, Icaria flourishes, triumphing over the social evils of 19th-century capitalism.

This study of American utopian fiction by women before 1950 includes exerpts from seven novels. This second edition presents a feminist revision of Edward Bellamy's influential Looking Backwards and ends with a World War II interplanetary women-centred fantasy.