The World of Poor Eve: Re-defining Women’s Roles in Nineteenth Century Utopian Communities

the founder of the Utopian Community, Nashoba, stated in a letter to her acquaintance General Lafayette, I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me of your sex, instead of poor Eve's.Trust me my beloved friend, the mind has no sex but what habit and education give it, and I, who was thrown in infancy upon