Utopian Genderscapes, Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age
Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age
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This book focuses on three prominent yet understudied intentional communities—Brook Farm, Harmony Society, and the Oneida Community—who in response to industrialization experimented with radical social reform in the antebellum United States.
Foremost among the avenues of reform was the place and substance of women’s work.
The author seeks in the communities’ rhetorics of teleology, choice, and exceptionalism the lived consequences of the communities' lofty goals for women members.
This feminist history captures the utopian reconfiguration of women’s bodies, spaces, objects, and discourses and delivers a needed intervention into how rhetorical gendering interacts with other race and class identities.
The attention to each community’s material practices reveals a gendered ecology, which in many ways squared unevenly with utopian claims.
Foremost among the avenues of reform was the place and substance of women’s work.
The author seeks in the communities’ rhetorics of teleology, choice, and exceptionalism the lived consequences of the communities' lofty goals for women members.
This feminist history captures the utopian reconfiguration of women’s bodies, spaces, objects, and discourses and delivers a needed intervention into how rhetorical gendering interacts with other race and class identities.
The attention to each community’s material practices reveals a gendered ecology, which in many ways squared unevenly with utopian claims.
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Michelle Christine Smith, "Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
