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Fourierist Communities of Reform


Fourierist Communities of Reform

The Social Networks of Nineteenth-Century Female Reformers
Palgrave Studies in Utopianism

von: Amy Hart

128,39 €

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 23.07.2021
ISBN/EAN: 9783030683566
Sprache: englisch

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This book explores the intersections between nineteenth-century social reform movements in the United States. Delving into the little-known history of women who joined income-sharing communities during the 1840s, this book uses four community case studies to examine social activism within communal environments. In a period when women faced legal and social restrictions ranging from coverture to slavery, the emergence of residential communities designed by French utopian writer, Charles Fourier, introduced spaces where female leadership and social organization became possible. Communitarian women helped shape the ideological underpinnings of some of the United States’ most enduring and successful reform efforts, including the women’s rights movement, the abolition movement, and the creation of the Republican Party. Dr. Hart argues that these movements were intertwined, with activists influencing multiple organizations within unexpected settings.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Intentional Communities and Social Change.-&nbsp;Chapter 2: Reverberations of Reform Activism: The Lasting Impact of Trumbull Phalanx.-&nbsp;Chapter 3: Demonstrating Racial Diversity within Community: The Northampton Association of Education and Industry.-&nbsp;<b>Chapter 4: Contested Community: The Wisconsin Phalanx and the Western Frontier.-&nbsp;</b>Chapter 5: Brook Farm: Two Diverging Paths After Community.-&nbsp;Chapter 6: Fourierist Futures: The Lasting Impact of the Fourierist Communities in the 1850s and Beyond
<p><b>Dr. Amy Hart</b>&nbsp;holds a Ph.D. in History from&nbsp;the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has served as a lecturer at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and is currently a public historian for California State Parks.<br></p>
<p>This is a fine book and a significant contribution to the study of American Fourierism. Amy Hart's big theme—that her four communal experiments&nbsp;<i>lived on&nbsp;</i>in the post-communal lives of their members—enables her to make fascinating connections between various reform movements…The personal histories come alive on the page thanks to shrewdly chosen quotes and sharp commentary.</p><p><i>Dr. Jonathan Beecher, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz</i></p><p>Finally, communal women get their due!&nbsp; Amy Hart’s meticulously researched and most readable book demonstrates that modern feminism did not begin at Seneca Falls, but was part of a milieu of reform movements, many of which crossed paths frequently with the intentional communities of the first half of the nineteenth century.</p><p><i>Dr. Timothy Miller, Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies, University of Kansas</i></p><p>This book explores the intersections between nineteenth-century social reform movements in the United States. Delving into the little-known history of women who joined income-sharing communities during the 1840s, this book uses four community case studies to examine social activism within communal environments. In a period when women faced legal and social restrictions ranging from coverture to slavery, the emergence of residential communities designed by French utopian writer, Charles Fourier, introduced spaces where female leadership and social organization became possible. Communitarian women helped shape the ideological underpinnings of some of the United States’ most enduring and successful reform efforts, including the women’s rights movement, the abolition movement, and the creation of the Republican Party. Dr. Hart argues that these movements were intertwined, with activists influencing multiple organizations within unexpected settings.<br></p><p></p><p><b>Dr. Amy Hart</b> holds a Ph.D. in History from&nbsp;the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has served as a lecturer at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and is currently a public historian for California State Parks.<br></p>
Explores the nature of social reform, the future of capitalism, and the feasibility of socialist, communitarian economic structures Argues that social reform movements and organizations were overlapping and interdependent in their membership, challenging narratives that frame social reform causes in the US as independent entities Examines the lives of intentional community members after their time living in the community, thus providing information on the long-term impacts of these communities on the lives of individuals

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