Foster, (William) Lawrence

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FOSTER, (William) Lawrence

FOSTER, (William) Lawrence. American, b. 1947. Genres: Sex, Theology/Religion. Career: Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL, instructor in American social history, 1976-77; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, assistant professor, 1977-82, associate professor of American history, 1982-. University of Sydney, visiting Fulbright professor, 1985. Publications: Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century, 1981, as Religion and Sexuality: The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community, 1984; Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons, 1991; (ed.) Free Love in Utopia, 2000. Contributor to books.