In the mid-19th century, a utopian community in central New York challenged Victorian gender roles, experimented with selective breeding and created one of America’s most radical social experiments.

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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 ...