Utopian Genderscapes
Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age
Book • 2021
This book focuses on three intentional communities—Brook Farm, Harmony Society, and the Oneida Community—that experimented with radical social reform in response to industrialization in the antebellum United States.
It examines the place and substance of women’s work within these communities.
The book captures the utopian reconfiguration of women’s bodies, spaces, objects, and discourses.
It delivers a needed intervention into how rhetorical gendering interacts with other race and class identities.
It argues that this utopian moment inaugurated many of the norms and practices of labor that continue to structure women’s lives and opportunities today.
It examines the place and substance of women’s work within these communities.
The book captures the utopian reconfiguration of women’s bodies, spaces, objects, and discourses.
It delivers a needed intervention into how rhetorical gendering interacts with other race and class identities.
It argues that this utopian moment inaugurated many of the norms and practices of labor that continue to structure women’s lives and opportunities today.
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