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Families and Communes : an Examination of Nontraditional Lifestyles.

This book focuses specifically on the role of the family in communal life. Communal groups are one type of nontraditional families, some communes are predisposed to families while others are not and some communal families can be replacements or substitutes for nuclear families. Historic communal gro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Dr. William Lawrence
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 1999.
Subjects:
Communal living > United States > History.
Collective settlements > United States > History.
Families > United States > History.
Alternative lifestyles > United States > History.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781452263731
1452263736
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 2
  • Communes: Conceptual, Definitional, Theoretical, and Typological Issues
  • Chapter 3
  • Families in Historic Communal Utopias: Part 1
  • Chapter 4
  • Families in Historic Communal Utopias: Part 2
  • Chapter 5
  • Urban and Rural Communes of the 1960s and 1970s
  • Chapter 6
  • Urban and Rural Communes of the 1980s and 1990s
  • Chapter 7
  • What have We Learned about Families and Communities?
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index
  • About the Author.

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