After reading Women in Utopia: The Ideology of Gender in American Owenite Communities, by Carol A. Kolmerten, I have decided to refine my research question by not only asking if women were neglected in the Owenite community, but also asking why they we…

What do I find interesting or curious about this group of people? What more do I need to know to situate this community in the problem or concept of utopia?
The Owen and his new world.
From the reading about Robert Owen and his new Harmony, It is reall…

One thing I find very interesting about the Owenites is their outlook on education. Owen believed that the members of the society should be raised by the community as a whole in order to “fashion a superior character” (Pitzer 94), not by th…