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- Polygamous Wives Writing Club : from the Diaries of Mormon Pioneer Women
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- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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- 2014
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- English
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- Yes
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- Religion, Social Science
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- Christian Rituals & Practice / General, Christianity / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon), General, Women's Studies, Sociology / Marriage & Family
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The Church of Latter-day Saints renounced the practice of plural marriage in 1890. In the mid to late nineteenth century, howeverthe heyday of Mormon polygamyan average of three out of every ten Mormon women became polygamous wives. Paula Kelly Harline delves deep into the diaries and autobiographies of twenty-nine such women, opening a rare window into the lives they led and revealing their views of and experiences with polygamy, including their well-founded belief that their domestic contributions would help to build a foundation for generations of future Mormons. Polygamous wives were participants in a controversial and very public religious practice that violated most social and religious rules of a monogamous America. Harline considers the questions: Were these women content with their sacrifice? Did the benefits of polygamous marriage for the Mormons outweigh the human toll it required and the embarrassment it continues to bring? Polygamous wives faced daunting challenges not only imposed by the wider society but within the home, yet those whose writings Harline explores give voice to far more than just unhappiness and discontent. Following two or three women simultaneously and integrating their own words within a lively narrative, Harline focuses on the detail of their emotional and domestic lives over time, painting a vivid and sometimes disturbing picture of an all but vanished and still controversial way of life.
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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019934650x
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9780199346509
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Polygamous Wives Writing Club : from the Diaries of Mormon Pioneer Women
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Hardcover
Language
English
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Christian Rituals & Practice / General, Christianity / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon), General, Women's Studies, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Publication Year
2014
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, Social Science
Number of Pages
256 Pages
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6.5 in
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0.9 in
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9.4 in
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16.7 Oz
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Bx8643.P63h37 2014
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"This book restores an essential chapter in Mormon history. Since the days of our polygamous foremothers, Mormon women have been stereotyped as voiceless victims and dupes. By digging into the 'heart history' of Mormon polygamy through the writings of the women who lived it, Paula Kelly Harline shows that Mormon women have wrestled with the unique demands of our faith with a full range of human motivations and feelings: grace and conflict, acquiescence and resistance, vocal criticism and quiet acceptance, pride and dejection, confidence and frustration. Is polygamy really a core element of Mormon theology? Harline offers both powerful commentary on this unresolved question that still weighs on so many Mormons, as well as a richly detailed history of Mormon women's lives. Intimate and important, this is a Mormon studies must-read." --Joanna Brooks, author of The Book of Mormon Girl"Paula Harline's treatment is a revealing if painful look into the profoundly rooted contradictions of Mormon plural marriage: she shows it to be a practice wives publicly defended while privately lamenting; one that fostered solidarity with a sisterhood burdened with 'the principle,' even as it fomented rivalries and sorrows within those marriages; and a practice that left a conflicting legacy of pride in the sacrifice polygamists endured, along with a persisting unease with the teachings and practices themselves." --Terryl L. Givens, co-author of The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life"Harline has done a great service in bringing together these narratives linking the high spiritual aims and the excruciating realities of a practice that cut to the core of women's lives. Harline's clear-eyed and tempered analysis contextualizes the very personal voices of the past." --Claudia L. Bushman, co-editor of Mormon Women Have Their Say, Essays from the Claremont Oral History Collection"Harline allows polygamy to not just exist in stereotypes, exoticism, or distortion; she gives it names and faces and real stories." --Publishers Weekly"[C]ompelling, moving, and instructional. Harline has done these women--and us--a great service by calling their written record to our attention, and I am grateful to her for this book." --Feast Upon the Word Blog"Paula Kelly Harline's The Polygamous Wives' Writing Club is a slim, elegantly composed volume that condenses several decades of history in a remarkably concise fashion. The result is a book that, even to an outsider, proceeds at a pleasant, informative clip and provides illuminative insight into under-examined lives." --Salt Lake City Weekly"While many titles have been written on the subject, few have made its human face so palpable." --Library Journal"...Clear and accessible..." --Nova Religio "Paula Harline has written a fascinating account of the polygamous lives of dozens of 'Mormon Pioneer Women''--The Journal of Religion, "This book restores an essential chapter in Mormon history. Since the days of our polygamous foremothers, Mormon women have been stereotyped as voiceless victims and dupes. By digging into the 'heart history' of Mormon polygamy through the writings of the women who lived it, Paula Kelly Harline shows that Mormon women have wrestled with the unique demands of our faith with a full range of human motivations and feelings: grace and conflict, acquiescence andresistance, vocal criticism and quiet acceptance, pride and dejection, confidence and frustration. Is polygamy really a core element of Mormon theology? Harline offers both powerful commentary on thisunresolved question that still weighs on so many Mormons, as well as a richly detailed history of Mormon women's lives. Intimate and important, this is a Mormon studies must-read." --Joanna Brooks, author of The Book of Mormon Girl"Paula Harline's treatment is a revealing if painful look into the profoundly rooted contradictions of Mormon plural marriage: she shows it to be a practice wives publicly defended while privately lamenting; one that fostered solidarity with a sisterhood burdened with 'the principle,' even as it fomented rivalries and sorrows within those marriages; and a practice that left a conflicting legacy of pride in the sacrifice polygamists endured, along with apersisting unease with the teachings and practices themselves." --Terryl L. Givens, co-author of The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life"Harline has done a great service in bringing together these narratives linking the high spiritual aims and the excruciating realities of a practice that cut to the core of women's lives. Harline's clear-eyed and tempered analysis contextualizes the very personal voices of the past." --Claudia L. Bushman, co-editor of Mormon Women Have Their Say, Essays from the Claremont Oral History Collection"Harline allows polygamy to not just exist in stereotypes, exoticism, or distortion; she gives it names and faces and real stories." --Publishers Weekly"[C]ompelling, moving, and instructional. Harline has done these women--and us--a great service by calling their written record to our attention, and I am grateful to her for this book." --Feast Upon the Word Blog"Paula Kelly Harline's The Polygamous Wives' Writing Club is a slim, elegantly composed volume that condenses several decades of history in a remarkably concise fashion. The result is a book that, even to an outsider, proceeds at a pleasant, informative clip and provides illuminative insight into under-examined lives." --Salt Lake City Weekly"While many titles have been written on the subject, few have made its human face so palpable." --Library Journal"...Clear and accessible..." --Nova Religio"Paula Harline has written a fascinating account of the polygamous lives of dozens of 'Mormon Pioneer Women''--The Journal of Religion, "This book restores an essential chapter in Mormon history. Since the days of our polygamous foremothers, Mormon women have been stereotyped as voiceless victims and dupes. By digging into the 'heart history' of Mormon polygamy through the writings of the women who lived it, Paula Kelly Harline shows that Mormon women have wrestled with the unique demands of our faith with a full range of human motivations and feelings: grace and conflict, acquiescence and resistance, vocal criticism and quiet acceptance, pride and dejection, confidence and frustration. Is polygamy really a core element of Mormon theology? Harline offers both powerful commentary on this unresolved question that still weighs on so many Mormons, as well as a richly detailed history of Mormon women's lives. Intimate and important, this is a Mormon studies must-read." --Joanna Brooks, author of The Book of Mormon Girl "Paula Harline's treatment is a revealing if painful look into the profoundly rooted contradictions of Mormon plural marriage: she shows it to be a practice wives publicly defended while privately lamenting; one that fostered solidarity with a sisterhood burdened with 'the principle,' even as it fomented rivalries and sorrows within those marriages; and a practice that left a conflicting legacy of pride in the sacrifice polygamists endured, along with a persisting unease with the teachings and practices themselves." --Terryl L. Givens, co-author of The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life "Harline has done a great service in bringing together these narratives linking the high spiritual aims and the excruciating realities of a practice that cut to the core of women's lives. Harline's clear-eyed and tempered analysis contextualizes the very personal voices of the past." --Claudia L. Bushman, co-editor of Mormon Women Have Their Say, Essays from the Claremont Oral History Collection "Harline allows polygamy to not just exist in stereotypes, exoticism, or distortion; she gives it names and faces and real stories." --Publishers Weekly "[C]ompelling, moving, and instructional. Harline has done these women--and us--a great service by calling their written record to our attention, and I am grateful to her for this book." --Feast Upon the Word Blog "Paula Kelly Harline's The Polygamous Wives' Writing Club is a slim, elegantly composed volume that condenses several decades of history in a remarkably concise fashion. The result is a book that, even to an outsider, proceeds at a pleasant, informative clip and provides illuminative insight into under-examined lives." --Salt Lake City Weekly "While many titles have been written on the subject, few have made its human face so palpable." --Library Journal "...Clear and accessible..." --Nova Religio, "This book restores an essential chapter in Mormon history. Since the days of our polygamous foremothers, Mormon women have been stereotyped as voiceless victims and dupes. By digging into the 'heart history' of Mormon polygamy through the writings of the women who lived it, Paula Kelly Harline shows that Mormon women have wrestled with the unique demands of our faith with a full range of human motivations and feelings: grace and conflict, acquiescence and resistance, vocal criticism and quiet acceptance, pride and dejection, confidence and frustration. Is polygamy really a core element of Mormon theology? Harline offers both powerful commentary on this unresolved question that still weighs on so many Mormons, as well as a richly detailed history of Mormon women's lives. Intimate and important, this is a Mormon studies must-read." --Joanna Brooks, author of The Book of Mormon Girl "Paula Harline's treatment is a revealing if painful look into the profoundly rooted contradictions of Mormon plural marriage: she shows it to be a practice wives publicly defended while privately lamenting; one that fostered solidarity with a sisterhood burdened with 'the principle,' even as it fomented rivalries and sorrows within those marriages; and a practice that left a conflicting legacy of pride in the sacrifice polygamists endured, along with a persisting unease with the teachings and practices themselves." --Terryl L. Givens, co-author of The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life "Harline has done a great service in bringing together these narratives linking the high spiritual aims and the excruciating realities of a practice that cut to the core of women's lives. Harline's clear-eyed and tempered analysis contextualizes the very personal voices of the past." --Claudia L. Bushman, co-editor of Mormon Women Have Their Say, Essays from the Claremont Oral History Collection, "This book restores an essential chapter in Mormon history. Since the days of our polygamous foremothers, Mormon women have been stereotyped as voiceless victims and dupes. By digging into the 'heart history' of Mormon polygamy through the writings of the women who lived it, Paula Kelly Harline shows that Mormon women have wrestled with the unique demands of our faith with a full range of human motivations and feelings: grace and conflict, acquiescence and resistance, vocal criticism and quiet acceptance, pride and dejection, confidence and frustration. Is polygamy really a core element of Mormon theology? Harline offers both powerful commentary on this unresolved question that still weighs on so many Mormons, as well as a richly detailed history of Mormon women's lives. Intimate and important, this is a Mormon studies must-read." --Joanna Brooks, author of The Book of Mormon Girl "Paula Harline's treatment is a revealing if painful look into the profoundly rooted contradictions of Mormon plural marriage: she shows it to be a practice wives publicly defended while privately lamenting; one that fostered solidarity with a sisterhood burdened with 'the principle,' even as it fomented rivalries and sorrows within those marriages; and a practice that left a conflicting legacy of pride in the sacrifice polygamists endured, along with a persisting unease with the teachings and practices themselves." --Terryl L. Givens, co-author of The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life "Harline has done a great service in bringing together these narratives linking the high spiritual aims and the excruciating realities of a practice that cut to the core of women's lives. Harline's clear-eyed and tempered analysis contextualizes the very personal voices of the past." --Claudia L. Bushman, co-editor of Mormon Women Have Their Say, Essays from the Claremont Oral History Collection "Harline allows polygamy to not just exist in stereotypes, exoticism, or distortion; she gives it names and faces and real stories." --Publishers Weekly "[C]ompelling, moving, and instructional. Harline has done these women--and us--a great service by calling their written record to our attention, and I am grateful to her for this book." --Feast Upon the Word Blog, This book restores an essential chapter in Mormon history. Since the days of our polygamous foremothers, Mormon women have been stereotyped as voiceless victims and dupes. By digging into the heart history of Mormon polygamy through the writings of the women who lived it, Paula Kelly Harline shows that Mormon women have wrestled with the unique demands of our faith with a full range of human motivations and feelings: grace and conflict, acquiescence and resistance, vocal criticismand quiet acceptance, pride and dejection, confidence and frustration. Is polygamy really a core element of Mormon theology? Harline offers both powerful commentary on this unresolved question that still weighs on so many Mormons, as well as a richly detailed history of Mormon womens lives. Intimateand important, this is a Mormon studies must-read, "This book restores an essential chapter in Mormon history. Since the days of our polygamous foremothers, Mormon women have been stereotyped as voiceless victims and dupes. By digging into the 'heart history' of Mormon polygamy through the writings of the women who lived it, Paula Kelly Harline shows that Mormon women have wrestled with the unique demands of our faith with a full range of human motivations and feelings: grace and conflict, acquiescence and resistance, vocal criticism and quiet acceptance, pride and dejection, confidence and frustration. Is polygamy really a core element of Mormon theology? Harline offers both powerful commentary on this unresolved question that still weighs on so many Mormons, as well as a richly detailed history of Mormon women's lives. Intimate and important, this is a Mormon studies must-read." --Joanna Brooks, author of The Book of Mormon Girl "Paula Harline's treatment is a revealing if painful look into the profoundly rooted contradictions of Mormon plural marriage: she shows it to be a practice wives publicly defended while privately lamenting; one that fostered solidarity with a sisterhood burdened with 'the principle,' even as it fomented rivalries and sorrows within those marriages; and a practice that left a conflicting legacy of pride in the sacrifice polygamists endured, along with a persisting unease with the teachings and practices themselves." --Terryl L. Givens, co-author of The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life "Harline has done a great service in bringing together these narratives linking the high spiritual aims and the excruciating realities of a practice that cut to the core of women's lives. Harline's clear-eyed and tempered analysis contextualizes the very personal voices of the past." --Claudia L. Bushman, co-editor of Mormon Women Have Their Say, Essays from the Claremont Oral History Collection "Harline allows polygamy to not just exist in stereotypes, exoticism, or distortion; she gives it names and faces and real stories." --Publishers Weekly "[C]ompelling, moving, and instructional. Harline has done these women--and us--a great service by calling their written record to our attention, and I am grateful to her for this book." --Feast Upon the Word Blog "Paula Kelly Harline's The Polygamous Wives' Writing Club is a slim, elegantly composed volume that condenses several decades of history in a remarkably concise fashion. The result is a book that, even to an outsider, proceeds at a pleasant, informative clip and provides illuminative insight into under-examined lives." --Salt Lake City Weekly "While many titles have been written on the subject, few have made its human face so palpable." --Library Journal, "This book restores an essential chapter in Mormon history. Since the days of our polygamous foremothers, Mormon women have been stereotyped as voiceless victims and dupes. By digging into the 'heart history' of Mormon polygamy through the writings of the women who lived it, Paula Kelly Harline shows that Mormon women have wrestled with the unique demands of our faith with a full range of human motivations and feelings: grace and conflict, acquiescence and resistance, vocal criticism and quiet acceptance, pride and dejection, confidence and frustration. Is polygamy really a core element of Mormon theology? Harline offers both powerful commentary on this unresolved question that still weighs on so many Mormons, as well as a richly detailed history of Mormon women's lives. Intimate and important, this is a Mormon studies must-read." --Joanna Brooks, author of The Book of Mormon Girl "Paula Harline's treatment is a revealing if painful look into the profoundly rooted contradictions of Mormon plural marriage: she shows it to be a practice wives publicly defended while privately lamenting; one that fostered solidarity with a sisterhood burdened with 'the principle,' even as it fomented rivalries and sorrows within those marriages; and a practice that left a conflicting legacy of pride in the sacrifice polygamists endured, along with a persisting unease with the teachings and practices themselves." --Terryl L. Givens, co-author of The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life "Harline has done a great service in bringing together these narratives linking the high spiritual aims and the excruciating realities of a practice that cut to the core of women's lives. Harline's clear-eyed and tempered analysis contextualizes the very personal voices of the past." --Claudia L. Bushman, co-editor of Mormon Women Have Their Say, Essays from the Claremont Oral History Collection "Harline allows polygamy to not just exist in stereotypes, exoticism, or distortion; she gives it names and faces and real stories." --Publishers Weekly "[C]ompelling, moving, and instructional. Harline has done these women--and us--a great service by calling their written record to our attention, and I am grateful to her for this book." --Feast Upon the Word Blog "Paula Kelly Harline's The Polygamous Wives' Writing Club is a slim, elegantly composed volume that condenses several decades of history in a remarkably concise fashion. The result is a book that, even to an outsider, proceeds at a pleasant, informative clip and provides illuminative insight into under-examined lives." --Salt Lake City Weekly "While many titles have been written on the subject, few have made its human face so palpable." --Library Journal "...Clear and accessible..." --Nova Religio "Paula Harline has written a fascinating account of the polygamous lives of dozens of 'Mormon Pioneer Women''--The Journal of Religion
Table of Content
Welcome I. Settling Utah Territory: Polygamous Yet Still Monogamous 1 I was perfectly willing...but still it was hard 2 I had admired his conduct on the plains 3 Interlude: Justifying Polygamy 4 It is a heart history II. Making Sense of "Sisterhood": First Wives and Younger Wives 5 the drudge and tail of such women 6 Interlude: Sometimes Sisterhood 7 many nights my pillow would be wet with grief 8 I could not say that I loved the man as lovers love III. Abandoning Polygamy: Weariness 9 word came the marshalls were coming, so I skipped out 10 Interlude: The 1890 Manifesto Transition 11 I grew rebellious 12 I heard a voice say you are away from Mr Chestnut Farewell Sources
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2014
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2013-039923
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