Citoyennes and Icaria / by Diana M. Garno.

0761831266
9780761831266

Lanham, MD : University Press of America, ©2005.

English

ix, 280 pages ; 23 cm

HX656.I33 G37 2005

"Icaria was a community where everyone shared all goods in common. It was premised on imaginative depictions in a utopian novel, "Voyage en Icaria" by Etienne Cabet (1840). Women and men were obliged to marry. No dowry was necessary, for the state provided housing, food, material goods, medical care, funded modern research, and lifelong security for all. Like men, women were educated and could become professionals, even doctors or priestesses." "In the novel, the community goals took fifty years to realize. The Icarians who came to America worked towards the book's principled social aims. The first immigration left for America shortly before the February 23, 1848 Revolution. The excited Icarian women, who planned to leave in March, were subsequently addressed as Citoyennes. They joined the French feminists in the drive to be included in universal suffrage but were not. However, the Citoyennes anticipated better conditions in the Icarian colony. This chronicle follows their efforts to have a political vote, which did come in 1879 in one Icarian Branch. Although legal and economic problems led to the final dissolution of the community in 1898, the Citoyennes legacy has survived, and now is carefully documented in Professor Garno's book."--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index.

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