By Jessie L. Embry

ISBN-10: 1589580982

ISBN-13: 9781589580985

ISBN-10: 1589581148

ISBN-13: 9781589581142

Mormons and non-Mormons all have their perspectives approximately how polygamy was once practiced within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through the overdue 19th and early 20th centuries. Embry has tested the contributors themselves to be able to know how women and men residing a nineteenth-century Victorian way of life tailored to polygamy. in keeping with files and oral histories with husbands, other halves, and kids who lived in Mormon polygamous families, this research explores the various reviews of person households and stereotypes approximately polygamy.The interviews are on occasion the single assets of basic info on how plural households have been geared up. moreover, teenagers from monogamous households who grew up in the course of the comparable interval have been interviewed to shape a comparability staff. while conscientiously tested, lots of the stereotypes approximately polygamous marriages don't carry actual. during this paintings it turns into transparent that Mormon polygamous households weren't a lot varied from Mormon monogamous households and non-Mormon households of an analogous period. Embry bargains a brand new standpoint at the Mormon perform of polygamy that allows readers to realize higher knowing of Mormonism historically.

About the writer: Jessie L. Embry is the affiliate director of the Charles Redd heart for Western reviews and an affiliate study professor at Brigahm younger college. She is the writer of 8 books and over a hundred articles on oral background, western American background, and ethnic Mormon heritage. She has simply released a e-book, Mormons and Polygamy, as a part of a chain to respond to questions on Mormonism.

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