THIS STRANGE SOCIETY OF WOMEN: READING THE LETTERS AND LIVES OF THE WOM (The Helen Hooven Santmyer Prize in Women's Studies)
By SALLY L. KITCH.
Description
Sally 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 chronicles the history and beliefs of the community, its business enterprises - successful hotels and bo...
ISBN(s)
0814205798, 9780814205792
