Nature’s Chastity
Jose Harris, 15 September 1983
Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the 19th Century
by Barbara Taylor.
Virago, 402 pp., £9.95, March 1983,0 86068 257 9 Show More
by Barbara Taylor.
Virago, 402 pp., £9.95, March 1983,
Virgins and Viragos: A History of Women in Scotland from 1080 to 1980
by Rosalind Marshall.
Collins, 365 pp., £13.50, June 1983,0 00 216039 0 Show More
by Rosalind Marshall.
Collins, 365 pp., £13.50, June 1983,
“... was equally severe: ‘the Owenites were too abstract, too metaphysical and accomplish little.’ Barbara Taylor’s study, mainly concerned with the Owenites in spite of its misleadingly ambitious title, challenges these views in a number of different ways. She queries the Owenites’ reputation for utopianism, arguing that ‘what has counted as utopian ... ”