Product Description: As laissez-faire market forces sweep the globe and the earth's future seems endangered, the dream of living in concert with nature and with one another is increasingly essential. A common human longing throughout history, the utopian community ideal has taken root firmly in America over the past 200 years...read more

This book focuses specifically on the role of the family in communal life. Communal groups are one type of nontraditional families, some communes are predisposed to families while others are not and some communal families can be replacements or substitutes for nuclear families. Historic communal groups such as Shakers, Oneida, Amana, and the Mormons are investigated as are contemporary rural and urban communal groups such as Twin Oaks, Jesus People USA, and the Hutterites. (view table of contents)

Product Description: 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.

Product Description: Book by Bouvard, Marguerite