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Countercultural communes
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Countercultural communes
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rejection or reflection of conventional mainstream gender norms?
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Conlon
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Kerry L.
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1988-
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Kerry Conlon
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author
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Feldstein
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Ruth
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Ruth Feldstein
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Advisory Committee
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chair
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - Newark
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theses
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2014
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2014-01
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xx
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eng
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This thesis utilizes a gendered analytical lens and a feminist framework in order to explore if the sixties countercultural communards of Colorado’s Drop City, Tennessee’s The Farm, and Virginia’s Twin Oaks achieved liberation from the mainstream gender roles that characterized post-World War II America. This study complicates the common assumption that communes represented spaces of liberation for individuals who wished to escape an oppressive and inequitable post-war society. Overall, this thesis found that men at Drop City, The Farm, and Twin Oaks were not only freed from their contemporary gender roles, but they were also able to remake meanings of masculinity within the communal context. This thesis also demonstrates that new meanings of masculinity tended to perpetuate traditional assumptions about male dominance and female domesticity. Additionally, this thesis discovered that incorporation of structure in communes, a facet of mainstream America that communards sought to escape, ironically furthered gender liberation and contributed to feminist growth in Twin Oaks in the 1970s and 1980s.
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History
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ETD_5261
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electronic resource
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vi, 87 p.
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M.A.
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Includes bibliographical references
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Includes vita
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by Kerry L. Conlon
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Drop City (Colo. : Commune)
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The Farm (Tenn. : Commune)
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Twin Oaks (Va. : Commune)
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Nineteen sixties--Social aspects--United States
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United States--Civilization--1945-
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Topic
Sexual division of labor
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Gender expression
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Sex role
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Feminism
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Graduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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rucore10002600001
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doi:10.7282/T31R6NM6
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ETD graduate
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Conlon
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Kerry
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2013-12-31 16:43:44
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Kerry Conlon
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Rutgers University. Graduate School - Newark
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Author Agreement License
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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