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100 1 $aKitch, Sally.
245 10 $aThis strange society of women :$breading the letters and lives of the Woman's Commonwealth /$cSally L. Kitch.
260 $aColumbus :$bOhio State University Press,$c©1993.
300 $axiv, 391 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
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490 1 $aA Helen Hooven Santmyer prize winner
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 373-378) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Ladies' Delight -- I. Crosses and Losses. 1. "I Am Tired of All This Christianity": 1866-1897. 2. "Different from Anything We Ever Seen Before": On the Road, 1897-1898. 3. "As If It All Belonged to Me": From Belton to Washington, 1898-1899. 4. "The Time Has Come We Are Obliged to Go to Work": 1900-1983 -- II. Sunshine and Shadow. 5. "Simple Faith and Shrewd Common Sense": A Group Portrait. 6. Martha White McWhirter: "The Great Spartan Mother" 7. The Haymonds: Seduced and Abandoned. 8. The Henrys and the Schebles; Loyalty and Absence. 9. The Johnsons and the Pratts: Of Mind and Flesh -- III. Grape Vine. 10. Narrative and Community. 11. Community and the Dream Texts -- IV. Radical Rose. 12. "Objects of Special Care and Love": Intergenerational Relationships. 13. Conclusion: "Everything Is Shewn in Favor of Men" -- Appendix A: Commonwealth Membership -- Appendix B: Commonwealth Property.
520 $aSally Kitch's study tells the story of an unusual, all-female urban utopian community founded in the late nineteenth century in Belton, Texas. The Woman's Commonwealth combined an ideology of celibacy with traditional business practices to achieve women's economic independence. Based on a large collection of personal letters exchanged among the group's twenty to twenty-five members, primarily mothers and their daughters, the book functions on several levels. First, it.
520 $aChronicles the history and beliefs of the community, its business enterprises - successful hotels and boardinghouses - and the personalities and relationships of its members. Second, Kitch considers the role of the letters themselves in the formation, maintenance, and ultimate dissolution of the group. Whereas most studies of women's letters have focused primarily on their role as historical documents, this book explores the symbolic or literary characteristics of the.
520 $aCorrespondence and applies narrative theory to its interpretation. Finally, Kitch assesses the community from various feminist theoretical perspectives and considers the Commonwealth's significance to modern feminism. For readers interested in feminism, American history and religion, utopian studies, cross-generational relationships, and for those who study letters or diaries as keys to understanding history and society, This Strange Society of Women offers a new way of.
520 $aExamining early feminist communities and their importance to the history of American women.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aKitch, Sally.$tThis strange society of women.$dColumbus : Ohio State University Press, ©1993$w(OCoLC)647018055
830 0 $aHelen Hooven Santmyer prize winner.
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