CONTENTS

SUSAN LOVE BROWN
God and Gender:  Structures of Opportunity in an American, Yogic Community, 1

WILLIAM METCALF
Federative Home, 25

MARY ANN HAAGEN
The Truth, The Whole Truth?:  A re-examination of James Hervey Elkins' 15 Years in the Senior Order of Shakers, 47

ILYON WOO
From "Sensual Attraction" to "A Malady of the Mind":  How Hervey Elkins Loved and Left the Shakers 65

NEVA JEAN SPECHT 
Constrained to Afford Them Countenance and Protection:  The role of the Philadelphia Friends in the Settlement of the Society of Separatists of Zoar, 95

LAWRENCE AND ROSE SCHEIN
Searching for Solidarity in Uncharted Territory, 109

HEATHER SULLIVAN-CATLIN
"A Good Borderland": Cohousing Communities and Social Change, 119

DOCUMENTS

REBECCA HILL
"The Food Suitor" and "A Journal Entry...1999," 141

REVIEWS

PETER HOEHNLE
The Riddle of Amish Culture, by Donald B. Kraybill, 147

RICHARD A. LYNCH
Visions of Utopia, by Edward Rothstein, Herbert Muschamp, Martin E. Marty, 150

TIM MILLER
The Palgrave Companion to North American Utopias, by John W. Friesen and Virginia Lyons Friesen,  155

DAVID NELSON
Bones and Ash, by Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, 159

DONALD E. PITZER
A Singular People:  Images of Zoar, by Kathleen M. Fernandez, 161

COVER

Wainoni House, Federative Home, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1899. Photograph courtesy of Erin McGifford and Alec Bickerton