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Plural marriage for our times : a reinvented option? /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kilbride, Philip Leroy
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Page, Douglas R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, [2012]
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Polygamy.
Marriage > United States.
Families > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Slow-motion polygamy in America : why a second edition
  • The monogamous ideal in western tradition and America : variations
  • Critical influences on plural marriage
  • Economics and decline of monogamous marriage in the United States
  • The non-monogamous in North America
  • Latter day saints explained
  • Living in polygyny today
  • The family reinvented : early Euro-American feminists
  • African American marriage crisis
  • Polygyny's purgatory
  • Benefits of legalizing polygyny
  • Religious foundations : a cultural critique
  • A love and commitment not to be feared
  • Fear and the slippery slope toward tolerance.