An ordered love : sex roles and sexuality in Victorian Utopias : the Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community / by Louis J. Kern.
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TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1981.Description: xiii, 430 p. ; 24 cmNotes: P. 77 Chapter 4 "Flesh is the Forbidden Fruit": The Theological Background and Its Relationship to Sexual Ideology" states that Shakers believe in a male-female godhead, and that Ann Lee, the founders of the Shakers, was the female Christ. The chapter goes on to elucidate the Shakers' commitment to celibacy and gender roles. P. 83 in Chapter 4 writes about effeminacy, and a Shaker's declaration that he never knew if his wife was male or female. P. 84 goes on to explain how effeminancy and homosexuality were viewed by the Shakers as the fear of men's own internalized feminine nature.Local Notes: Gift of Charles Rosenberg.Subject(s): - Shakers -- United States -- History
- Oneida Community -- History
- Free love -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Sex customs -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Sex role -- History -- 19th century
- Latter Day Saints -- History
- Utopias -- History -- 19th century
- Utopias -- United States
- Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines
- Sex role -- United States -- History
- Asexuality
- Gender transgression
- Sexuality
- Homosexuality
- Male homosexuality
- Gender roles
- Bisexuality
- Queer History
- EAMSS
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-419) and index.
P. 77 Chapter 4 "Flesh is the Forbidden Fruit": The Theological Background and Its Relationship to Sexual Ideology" states that Shakers believe in a male-female godhead, and that Ann Lee, the founders of the Shakers, was the female Christ. The chapter goes on to elucidate the Shakers' commitment to celibacy and gender roles. P. 83 in Chapter 4 writes about effeminacy, and a Shaker's declaration that he never knew if his wife was male or female. P. 84 goes on to explain how effeminancy and homosexuality were viewed by the Shakers as the fear of men's own internalized feminine nature.
The true plan of life: Nineteenth-century American attitudes toward the self and sexuality -- Hymenius bound: Shaker sexuality in ideology and practice -- Celestial marriage: Mormon sexuality and sex roles in ideology and practice -- "In the Eden of Heart-Love": Sexuality and sex roles of Oneida Community in Ideology and practice -- Distinguishing the church from the world: Sectarian Communitarianism and Nineteenth-century America.
Gift of Charles Rosenberg.