A review by eeeeeeee
An Ordered Love: Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias--The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community by Louis J. Kern

challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

Extremely detailed - perhaps too detailed? - look at sexual practices in the Shakers, Oneida, and early Mormons.  I didn't agree with some of his conclusions about the Shakers but they gave me something to think about.  I don't think he needed to use so many big vocabulary words - "postcatamenial"?? really??? - but for scholars and wanna be scholars of utopias this is a great book.