Without Sin: the Life and Death of the Oneida Community; - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Language: English
Published by Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, New York, 1993
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A mildly edgeworn first Printing of the First Edition in otherwise Fine condition housed in a dust-jacket that has some wear to the edges else also Fine; In 1979, Jon Klaw, an outsider looking in, was given unprecedented access to the enigmatic Oneida Community, where he spent three years living and working. Klaw's riveting, deeply personal account of the controversial religious commune offers a unique and fascinating look at life on the margins of American society.; 8vo; 337 pages.
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- Title
- Without Sin: the Life and Death of the Oneida Community; - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Klaw, Spencer
- Publisher
- Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, New York
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0713990910
- ISBN 13
- 9780713990911
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing.
Perhaps the most distinctive aspect of life at Oneida was the highly unorthodox sexual regimen prescribed by its founder, who believed that in a community of true Christians, God did not intend love between men and women to be confined to the narrow channels of conventional matrimony. In the Oneidan system of "complex marriage," every woman in the Community was considered to be married to every man, resulting in a virtually constant exchange of sexual partners. Oneidan men were required to practice a special technique of birth control, freeing the women from the burden of bearing unwanted children. Child-rearing, like most work at Oneida, was shared by the Community's men and women. According to Noyes's view, work, like sex, was intended to be joyous: Oneidans were encouraged to change jobs often to prevent boredom, and whenever possible hard and monotonous work was transformed into a game or social occasion.
Working for more than a decade from the letters and diaries - many previously unpublished - of Oneida's own members, Spencer Klaw has rescued a largely forgotten chapter in American history, reminding us of one of the most successful attempts ever made to build a society in which men and women could live together harmoniously sharing with absolute equality the fruits of their common labor. As one of the children born and raised at Oneida would write years after the Community had disappeared, "I have the faith to believe that here a great example of unselfishness was set for the world for all time, and that the future will find that out."
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Review
--Alfred Kazin
"An exceptionally fine work of popular history . . . Klaw tells the story of this remarkable social experiment in readable, engaging prose"
--The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Fascinating . . . a sympathetic, detailed, and wonderfully well-told account."
--The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A vivid portrait of a truly American moment and community"
--The Wall Street Journal
"We beign to suspect that the real life and identity of America lies in its unique--and at time maddeningly independent--search for God and personal salvation and not in its wars and generals and presidents. Spencer Klaw's brilliant and poetic book illuminates magnificently one uch experiement. . . . An exhilirating and disturbing portrait on the fault-line of the American conscience."
--Ken Burns
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