SPECIAL LOVE/SPECIAL SEX (1994, Hardcover)


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Publisher:	Syracuse Univ Pr	ISBN-10:	0815602863
Subject:	Social Sciences	ISBN-13:	9780815602866
Topic:	Anthropology	Format:	Hardcover
Language:	English	Publication Year:	1994
Condition:	Brand New	Special Attributes:	1st Edition, Illustrated

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Synopsis
"Special Love/Special Sex" is based on the diary of a dental techinician, Victor Hawley, living in the Oneida Community in Madison County, New York in the 1870s. The diary is reproduced in the book, along with background information and analysis. Much of the dairy has to do with the conflicts Hawley had with the community over his love affair with a woman whom the community had deemed to be an unsuitable match for him. The Oneida Community had, from its inception in Vermont in the 1840s, unorthodox beliefs about sex and love. Its founder had to flee Vermont on charges of adultery and he restablished the Community at Oneida. By the 1870s, the Community was carefully choosing the mates of its members; Hawley and Mary Jones ran afoul of this practice. They eventually left the Community and married.
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Series:	Utopianism and Communitarianism
Editor:	Robert S. Fogarty

Size
Height:	9.0 in.
Width:	6.0 in.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
Weight:	17.6 oz.

Publisher's Note
The recently discovered diary of an Oneida Community member written between 1876 and 1877 deals with love, aggression, jealousy, and the conflict between private desire and public good. Victor Hawley was a thirty-year-old dental assistant with a passion for collecting butterflies, who fell in love with Mary Jones, another colony member. Because of the community's unique social and sexual practices, however, the two were kept apart and denied their request to have a child. In the eyes of the community, their love was unsanctified. Instead, on the order of colony founder John Humphrey Noyes, Jones was subsequently impregnated by Noyes's son. Fogarty effectively uses the diary to illuminate with particular clarity the largely ignored darker side of the community. Thus this rare chronicle opens for radical reinterpretation the Oneida Community's plan on procreation and the central role that sexual domination played in its history. Hawley's intense struggle to reconcile individual and community needs and desires illustrates a fundamental tension that characterized the community in the years immediately preceding its dissolution. In 1877, after twenty-three years at Oneida, Victor Hawley left the community with Mary Jones after he nursed her through an agonizing pregnancy that ended in stillbirth. They married, had five children, and lived on their own, outside the embrace of Eden. From numerous entries in Hawley's secret diary, which were written in an arcane shorthand, Robert S. Fogarty successfully extracts some astonishing personal details, which include descriptions of areas of community life never before revealed on such matters as religious commitment and experiments in eugenics.Special Love/Special Sex will be specifically of interest to scholars in utopian and communitarian studies and to social historians.
Industry reviews
"The diary is, indeed, an illuminating document. It is hardly to be read for its literary merit; but for its pathos and for the insight it offers into the problems of Perfection and Communitarianism, it is a genuine find." Times Literary Supplement - David Martin (05/19/1995)

Hardback in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket.Not ex-library. Clean tight copy with b&w photos throughout. Proceeds benefit Lancaster PA Public Library.

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