In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith32 reviews Todd Compton Signature Books, 1997 have you every pondered the question + DIDN'T want to believe it, but..... + The most informative book about Joseph Smith I have read The information that is presented in the book will give a perspective into the lives of early mormons that will open your eyes to the trials and problems associated with polygamy and polyandry. Modern mormons will find their eyes opened to information that the church would rather leave buried. The ...             Solemn Covenant: THE MORMON POLYGAMOUS PASSAGE2 reviews B. Carmon Hardy University of Illinois Press, 1992 Very well researched and written + Solemn Covenant: A Good Work Carmon Hardy has done an excellent job of describing the Mormon church's doctrinal change from a polygamous to a monogomist ethic. The first part of his book deals with the polygamous beginnings and early Mormon justification for the practice. Polygamy was considered the "family order of ...             Zion in the Courts: A Legal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-19002 reviews Edwin Brown Firmage, R Collin Mangrum University of Illinois Press, 2001 A Great Book This is the first, and to date the only, book that attempts to tell the 19th century legal history of the Mormon Church. The book is divided into three parts. The first section basically gives the legal history of the church during the life time of its founder Joseph Smith. The second section ...             Women of Principle: Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny1 review Janet Bennion Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 The characters come to life Women of Principle offers an in-depth study of the female experience in one Mormon polygymous community, the Apostolic United Brethren. Characteristically, women in such rigid and patriarchal religious groups are portrayed as the oppressed, powerless victims of male domination. Janet Bennion ...             Mormon Polygamy: A History21 reviews Richard S. Van Wagoner Signature Books, 1992 Excellent history about polygamy. + best factual book on polygamy + The History of the REAL "Big Love" + Very scholarly + A real page-turner of a history book             Latter-day Saint Courtship Patterns Mary Jane Woodger University Press of America, 2007             Multiply and Replenish: Mormon Essays on Sex and Family (Essays on Mormonism Series)1 review Signature Books, 1994 LDS needs to change ... Period! The 13 essays + 1 epilgoue are important reflections and descriptions of early and contemporary LDS attitudes and behaviour towards sexuality. The book encompasses everything in us humans, our sexual orientation, our desires, our gender idenity (being male, transgendered, female) our partners or ...             God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist ... Andrea Moore-Emmett Pince-Nez Press, 2004 "I know girls as young as 12 years old who have been forced to marry their stepfathers," Laura Chapman states in God’s Brothel. For the first time, the stories of Laura and 17 other former polygamist wives are being told in book form. Unique among books on this topic, God’s Brothel presents accounts from 10 of the 11 major Mormon polygamist sects and several independent families. This thorough ...             Kidnapped from That Land: The Government Raids on the Short Creek Polygamists (Publications in Mormon Studies)2 reviews Martha Sonntag Bradley Univ of Utah Pr (T), 1993 excellent Very well researched. A valuableresearch tool for a very controversial and obscure subject             Escape313 reviews Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer Broadway, 2007 Why is this abuse tolerated today in America? + No words can describe... + Escape + A Book About Far More than Polygamy + The book ESCAPE by Carolyn Jessop             Mormon Polygamous Families: Life in the Principle (Publications in Mormon Studies, Vol 1) Jessie L. Embry Univ of Utah Pr (T), 1987 Mormons and non-Mormons all have their views about how polygamy was practiced in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Embry has examined the participants themselves in order to understand how men and women living a nineteenth-century Victorian lifestyle adapted to polygamy. Based on records and oral histories with husbands, ...             Nauvoo Polygamy: "... but we called it celestial marriage" George D. Smith Signature Books, 2008 When Joseph and Emma Smith arrived in Ohio in 1831, several families offered them lodging, as did the Whitneys, whose five year-old daughter, Sarah Ann, and her eleven-year-old neighbor, Mary Elizabeth Rollins, would later play a role in Mormon polygamy. The Smiths soon moved in with the Johnsons, where Joseph met fifteen-year-old Marinda Nancy. In 1836, seven-year-old Helen Mar Kimball attended ...             The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America1 review Sarah Barringer Gordon The University of North Carolina Press, 2002 great, scholarly i got this book for a legal history research paper on the free exercise clause. it was easy to read, interesting, and well cited. i highly reccomend it.             Religion and Sexuality: The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community1 review Lawrence Foster University of Illinois Press, 1984 What do the Mormons, the Shakers, and the Oneida Perfectionists have in common? The answer is quite a lot, according to historian Lawrence Foster, a member of the history faculty at Georgia Tech, a former president of the Mormon History Association, and a longstanding friend and colleague in the study of the Mormon past. Foster begins his discussion of the marriage practices ...             Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education (The Fundamentalism Project) University Of Chicago Press, 1997 The Fundamentalism Project Edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby Around the world, fundamentalist movements are profoundly affecting the way we live. Misinformation and misperception about fundamentalism exacerbate conflicts at home and abroad. Yet policymakers, journalists, students, and others have lacked any comprehensive resource on the explosive phenomenon of fundamentalism. ...             The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle5 reviews Kathleen Flake The University of North Carolina Press, 2004 Wonderful look at the church in transition + An amazing view into a pivotal time in the chruch + We still have a need to shed our religious bigotry + Almost perfect + Insightful observations             Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife93 reviews Irene Spencer Center Street, 2007 Well written, + honest insight + The best of the scary bunch Shattered Dreams was a story so well written that I couldn't put it down. Irene was a child who was reared in Pologamy. Her mother left the order when she was a young teen, and begged Irene not to become involved in the order. As a teen, Irene was torn between marrying a young man who ...             Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen Berg Publishers, 2008 Forms of plural marriage, or polygamy, are practiced within most of the world's cultures and religions. The amazing variation, versatility and adaptability of polygamy underscore that it is not just an exotic non-Western practice, but also exists in modern Western societies. Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis provides an examination and analysis of historical and contemporary polygamy. It ...             Voices in Harmony: Contemporary Women Celebrate Plural Marriage5 reviews Mary Batchelor, Marianne Watson, ... Cedar Fort, 2000 Some thoughts after reading an unusual & interesting book + Voices in Harmony Book Review + Important infomation + I bow in deepest respect before these women + A Book about real women living real life             Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847-19181 review Jeffrey Nichols University of Illinois Press, 2002 One for the Sinners The richness and diversity of Utah history tends to be obscured by Mormon history. So much energy is expended canonizing Utah's saints that few resources remain for celebrating and preserving the capricious, ironic, and improvisatory. ("[In Utah] people talk only of the Prophet, hogs, and Fords," ...