commune's

But the commune's specific form had yet to be decided.

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By the time the Mitchell-Lapidus family passed through the gate, a significant number of the commune's adults had not shared in the powerful bonding experiences of the Monday Night Class and the Caravan.

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Women's presumed affinity for resolving interpersonal conflict appears to have predisposed the appointment of women to manage the commune's cash.

Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

Still, this points to the larger question that will concern us at the end of this chapter: Why did this woman evidently lack the control of her fertility necessary to accommodate the demands of the season — and why did her desire to drive not count as an occasion to re-examine the commune's belief in the primacy of fertility and nurture?

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Verification of the foregoing statistics awaits the opening of the commune's records.

Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

Yet quite often, crew members found it necessary to take jobs as temporary laborers to raise funds for essential projects, such as the farming crew's spring planting. 33 During the first two years or so, Stephen and Wheeler served as the commune's business officers.

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Theresa said, "Ladies gig [work] at the phones [the commune's telephone exchange] and at Canning," as if to say: But women do work outside the household.

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The commune's continued existence depended on the midwives 'skill.

Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

The commune's carpentry crew worked diligently to create frame housing for the hippie village as materials became available, but they generated income by expanding into commercial work, hiring their services over a wide swath of the upper and middle South.

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Nor can we know whether those same conditions might have prompted the woman who argued that nursing a child was "heavier" than holding a corporate presidency to voice a more nuanced account of her experience of the commune's strong emphasis on childrearing.

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