A minister is born -- Noyes in the underworld -- New Jerusalem (in Vermont) -- Electric sex, or, How to live forever -- Marriage grows complex -- The machine in the garden -- Sticky love -- Brave new ...

Religion, sexuality, and women's roles : alternative family and sexual systems in nineteenth-century America -- Celibacy and feminism : the Shakers and equality for women -- Shaker spiritualism and ...

The Santa Monica Public Library is proud to present a lecture and discussion with author Ellen Wayland-Smith on Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table on Thursday, Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. in ...

Hidden in upstate New York are the remains of the Oneida Community, an attempted utopia founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848. Throughout the three decades the community existed in practice, more ...

Actually, the Oneida Community has had a long history of attracting visitors. During the height of the community's existence, thousands of tourists came regularly by railroad and paid 60 cents for one ...

Looming over Susan Wels’s “An Assassin in Utopia” are two men steered by their own contrarian compasses—John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Oneida religious community and coiner of the term “free love ...