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Women of Principle : Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny by Janet Bennion is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Women of Principle : Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny about?

This book offers an in-depth study of the female experience in one Mormon polygynous community, the Apostolic United Brethren. Women in such rigid, patriarchal religious groups are commonly portrayed as the oppressed, powerless victims of male domination. Janet Bennion shows, however, that the reality is far more complex. Many women converts are attracted to this group, and they are much more likely than male converts to remain there. Often these women are seeking improved socio-economic status for themselves and their children, as well as an escape from their marginalized status in the mainstream Mormon church. In the polygynous group women experience rapid assimilation, autonomy, and upward mobility. Bennion supports her study with narratives from the lives of women now living in the group--narratives that clearly reveal why many mainstream Mormon women are viewing polygyny as a viable alternative to the difficulties to single-motherhood, "spinsterhood," poverty, and emotional deprivation.

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Author

Janet Bennion

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195353006

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Islam, Philosophy