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Article: Diana M. Garno. Citoyennes and Icaria.(Book review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- March 22, 2006
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Diana M. Garno. Citoyennes and Icaria. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 2005. ix + 280 pp. $39.00
Etienne Cabet, the nineteenth-century French theorist who, with many of his followers, established communal societies in the United States, has often been portrayed as an idealist whose lofty goals proved unachievable. A theme of Diana M. Garno's Citoyennes andlcaria is how the gap between word and deed was especially represented in the lives of Icarian "citoyennes"--the women who were part of Cabet's following. Citoyennes did eventually win a measure of suffrage, at least in one of the later Icarian communities, but for most of the history of the movement, and despite ...