Women of Principle

Auteur: Bennion, Janet (Assistant Professor of Socio-cultural Anthropology, Assistant Professor of Socio-cultural Anthropology, University of Maine)
Editeur: Oxford University Press Inc
A study of the struggles of contemporary Mormon polygynous women, which claims that the women gain economic security and social autonomy through networks with others of the same sex when the patriarch is absent from the family. The author argues that Mormon women see polygyny as an alternative to isolation, poverty, and emotional deprivation.

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A study of the struggles of contemporary Mormon polygynous women, which claims that the women gain economic security and social autonomy through networks with others of the same sex when the patriarch is absent from the family. The author argues that Mormon women see polygyny as an alternative to isolation, poverty, and emotional deprivation.
ISBN / EAN 9780195120707
Auteur Bennion, Janet (Assistant Professor of Socio-cultural Anthropology, Assistant Professor of Socio-cultural Anthropology, University of Maine)
Editeur Oxford University Press Inc