Lawrence Foster, Ph.D., a professor of American history at Georgia
Tech in Atlanta, has written widely about American religious and social history.
His best-known books, Religion and Sexuality and Women, Family, and Utopia,
focus on how alternative marriage, family, and sex-role beliefs and practices
were introduced among the celibate Shakers, "free love" Oneida Community, and
polygamous Mormons in 19th-century America.
