Women of Principle : Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny.

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 therealit...

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Main Author: Bennion, Janet
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cary : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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