Women in Search of Utopia: Mavericks and Mythmakers

Ruby Rohrlich, Elaine Hoffman Baruch

This book gathers dozens of essays in the categories, “The Distant Past” (e.g., “Rethinking Matriliny Among the Hopi”; “Women in Transition: Crete and Sumer”), “The Recent Past” (e.g., “The Shakers”; “Frances Wright: Utopian Feminist”; “Women and the Owenite Socialist Communities”; “The Woman’s Commonwealth”), “Contemporary Directions” (e.g., “Women in the Children of God”; “Findhorn, Scotland”; “Twin Oaks: A Feminist Looks at Indigenous Socialism in the United States”), and “Visions of Utopia” (e.g., “Women in Men’s Utopias”; “Motherhood in Feminist Utopias”; “Theories of Social Change in Contemporary Feminist Science Fiction”; “Feminist Utopias in Review”).

This book takes a strong feminist perspective, but always a balanced one. It should be of continuing interest for anyone interested in feminist studies, intentional communities, communes, or utopian societies.

status	Copy #1 (4506): in
genre	Hard Science » Anthropology
publisher	Schocken
publish date	June 12, 1984
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