This Strange Society Of Women: Reading The Letters And Lives Of The Wom (The Helen Hooven Santmyer Prize In Women'S Studies),Used

This Strange Society Of Women: Reading The Letters And Lives Of The Wom (The Helen Hooven Santmyer Prize In Women'S Studies),Used

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Sally Kitch's study tells the story of an unusual, allfemale 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 twentyfive members, primarily mothers and their daughters, the book functions on several levels. First, it chronicles 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 Whereas most studies of women's letters have focused primarily on their role as historical documents, this book explores the symbolic or literary characteristics of the correspondence and applies narrative theory to its interpretation.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, crossgenerational 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 examining early feminist communities and their importance to the history of American women.

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