Women of Principle: Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon PolygynyOxford University Press, 8 oct 1998 - 192 páginas 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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Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny Janet Bennion. This page intentionally left blank Women of Principle * Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny.
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Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny Janet Bennion. Women of Principle * Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny JANET BENNION New York Oxford Oxford University Press 1998 Cape Town Oxford University Press Oxford New ...
Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny Janet Bennion. Women of Principle * Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny JANET BENNION New York Oxford Oxford University Press 1998 Cape Town Oxford University Press Oxford New ...
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... Mormon polygyny / Janet Bennion . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-19-512070-1 1. Mormon women - United States - Case studies . 2. Polygamy - United States - Case studies . 3. Apostolic United Brethren . I ...
... Mormon polygyny / Janet Bennion . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-19-512070-1 1. Mormon women - United States - Case studies . 2. Polygamy - United States - Case studies . 3. Apostolic United Brethren . I ...
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... Mormon polygynous group , formerly known as the Apostolic United Brethren . I lived and worked in its northernmost branch in the winter of 1989 with my 18 - month - old daughter , Liza . Since that original fieldwork , I have studied ...
... Mormon polygynous group , formerly known as the Apostolic United Brethren . I lived and worked in its northernmost branch in the winter of 1989 with my 18 - month - old daughter , Liza . Since that original fieldwork , I have studied ...
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Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny Janet Bennion. sense of the patterns of female experience described . This book is pri- marily drawn from my larger analysis of male and female converts , found in my dissertation ...
Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny Janet Bennion. sense of the patterns of female experience described . This book is pri- marily drawn from my larger analysis of male and female converts , found in my dissertation ...
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The People An Ethnographic Sketch | 13 |
Ideological Blueprints Charters for Female Status and Satisfaction | 41 |
Economic Challenges and Creative Financing How Judith Got By on 76 a Month | 65 |
Courtship Marriage and Sexuality | 80 |
Living Arrangements and Individuality Sharing Space | 114 |
About Sickness Barrenness Aging and Death | 123 |
The Nature of Female Relationships and the Network | 129 |
Conclusion Female Kingdom Building in Mormon Fundamentalist Polygyny | 143 |
Glossary | 156 |
Notes | 159 |
References | 169 |
Index | 175 |
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Página 51 - AND in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel : only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
Página 88 - What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor ? " saith the Lord God of Hosts. Moreover the Lord saith, " Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet...
Página 18 - If any man espouse a virgin, and desires to espouse another, and the first gives her consent ; and if he espouse the second, and they are virgins, and have vowed to no other man, then is he justified ; he cannot commit adultery for they are given unto him, for he cannot commit adultery with that that belongeth unto him and to no one else.
Página 166 - That by keeping the commandments they might be washed and cleansed from all their sins, and receive the Holy Spirit by the laying on of the hands of him who is ordained and sealed unto this power; And who overcome by faith, and are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, which the Father sheds forth upon all those who are just and true.
Página v - OF THE SOUL, ETC. authority to crush and oppress us. We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they envy us our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow-minded, pinch-backed race of men, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy, and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. They ought...
Página 45 - ... that God has the form and parts of a man. The greatest vagaries of doctrinal teachings are found during Brigham Young's reign in Utah. In the way of a curiosity the following diagram and its explanation, by Orson Hyde, may be reproduced from the Millennial Star, Vol. IX, p. 23 : — "The above diagram shows the order and unity of the Kingdom of God. The eternal Father sits at the head, crowned King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Wherever the other lines meet there sits a king and priest under God,...
Página 20 - Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect
Página 48 - Never seek to prejudice the mind of your husband against any of his other wives, for the purpose of exalting yourself in his estimation, lest the evil which you unjustly try to bring upon them, fall with double weight upon your own head.
Página 48 - She should be willing to aid the other wives in times of trouble and illness and each mother should correct her own children, and see that they do not dispute and quarrel with each other, nor with any others; let her not correct the children of the others without liberty to do so, lest they give offense.