Citoyennes and Icaria / by Diana M. Garno.
Garno, Diana M.
2005
HX656.I33 G37 2005 (Mapit)
Available at General Collection

Items

Details

Title Citoyennes and Icaria / by Diana M. Garno.
Author Garno, Diana M.
ISBN 0761831266
9780761831266
Imprint Lanham, MD : University Press of America, ©2005.
Language English
Description ix, 280 pages ; 23 cm
Call Number HX656.I33 G37 2005
Summary "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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index.
Available in Other Form Citoyennes and Icaria.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
All Resources
1847: Icariennes
1848: From Icarienne to Citoyenne
Fire brands, dissidents, faithful
"Violent" maternal protests
The Citoyennes' defeat in a 'delicate' war
Red 'Mariannes'
Guerre à mort (war to death)
Loyalist reconsiderations
A pastoral interlude
Equal rights "without distinctions of sex"
The Pacific revolution
Counter-revolution: Icaria's finale.

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export