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Mormon Polygamous Families: Life in the Principle

Mormon Polygamous Families: Life in the Principle

Embry, Jessie L.

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ISBN10: 1589580982
ISBN13: 9781589580985
Publisher: Greg Kofford Books Inc
Published: Jan 1 2008
Pages: 354
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Mormons and non-Mormons all have their views about how polygamy was practiced in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jessie L. Embry has examined the participants themselves in order to understand how men and women living a nineteenth-century Victorian lifestyle adapted to polygamy. Based on records and oral histories with husbands, wives, and children who lived in Mormon polygamous households, this study explores the diverse experiences of individual families and stereotypes about polygamy.The interviews are in some cases the only sources of primary information on how plural families were organized. In addition, children from monogamous families who grew up during the same period were interviewed to form a comparison group. When carefully examined, most of the stereotypes about polygamous marriages do not hold true. In this work it becomes clear that Mormon polygamous families were not much different from Mormon monogamous families and non-Mormon families of the same era. Embry offers a new perspective on the Mormon practice of polygamy that enables readers to gain better understanding of Mormonism historically.

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