Did Biblical Movements Affect Groups Gender Behaviors?
diversification, and the problem of maintaining the communal family that had replace the nuclear family (p. 4). The community contended that they addressed the inequities that women had faced in the United States in the 19th century regarding their gender and sexual roles. Social scientists who take the position of admiration, unfavorable, or neither don’t agree with each other if women’s conditions were improved. Since the beginnings of Oneida, the practices of liberating women from suppressive gender and sexual expectations were progressive, considering the mixed evaluations of true achievement. In the area of reform, the perfectionism movement started to arise in the United States, approximately in the decade of 1820s. Theodore Parker, critic of the perfectionist movement and distinguished clergyman said it was their aim to: “create a society full of industry and abundance, full of wisdom, virtue, and the poetry of life; a state with unity among all, with freedom for each; a church
