Author: T. B. H. Stenhouse
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ISBN: 9781436770590
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author: Mrs. T. B. H. Stenhouse
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406898439
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Fanny Stenhouse (1828-1904) was an early Mormon pioneer who defected from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and wrote two books about her experiences, Expose of Polygamy in Utah: A Lady's Life Among the Mormons (1872) and An Englishwoman in Utah (1874). The first book was a small volume briefly outlining her life and presenting her arguments against the doctrine of polygamy. It proved very popular, widely read by those hungry for news of the Mormons' bizarre practice of polygamy. It gave accurate information in a less dramatic style than others on the subject in its day, and resulted in the author embarking on a lucrative lecture tour. Mrs Stenhouse's second book covers the same issues in greater detail, and is reprinted here from an illustrated edition of 1880 with a preface by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
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ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 867
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Author: Mrs. T. B. H. Stenhouse
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ISBN:
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Category : Utah
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385479207
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Author: Louis J. Kern
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469620421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
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An Ordered Love is the first detailed study of sex roles in the utopian communities that proposed alternatives to monogamous marriage: The Shakers (1779-1890), the Mormons (1843-90), and the Oneida Community (1848-79). The lives of men and women changed substantially when they joined one of the utopian communities. Louis J. Kern challenges the commonly held belief that Mormon polygamy was uniformly downgrading to women and that Oneida pantagamy and Shaker celibacy were liberating for them. Rather, Kern asserts that changes in sexual behavior and roles for women occurred in ideological environments that assumed women were inferior and needed male guidance. An elemental distrust of women denied the Victorian belief in their moral superiority, attacked the sanctity of the maternal role, and institutionalized the dominance of men over women. These utopias accepted the revolutionary idea that the pleasure bond was the essence of marriage. They provided their members with a highly developed theological and ideological position that helped them cope with the ambiguities and anxieties they felt during a difficult transitional stage in social mores. Analysis of the theological doctrines of these communities indicates how pervasive sexual questions were in the minds of the utopians and how closely they were related to both reform (social perfection) and salvation (individual perfection). These communities saw sex as the point at which the demands of individual selfishness and the social requirements of self-sacrifice were in most open conflict. They did not offer their members sexual license, but rather they established ideals of sexual orderliness and moral stability and sought to provide a refuge from the rampant sexual anxieties of Victorian culture. Kern examines the critical importance of considerations of sexuality and sexual behavior in these communities, recognizing their value as indications of larger social and cultural tensions. Using the insights of history, psychology, and sociology, he investigates the relationships between the individual and society, ideology and behavior, and thought and action as expressed in the sexual life of these three communities. Previously unused manuscript sources on the Oneida Community and Shaker journals and daybooks reveal interesting and sometimes startling information on sexual behavior and attitudes.
Author: Brenda R. Weber
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478005297
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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From Sister Wives and Big Love to The Book of Mormon on Broadway, Mormons and Mormonism are pervasive throughout American popular media. In Latter-day Screens, Brenda R. Weber argues that mediated Mormonism contests and reconfigures collective notions of gender, sexuality, race, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism. Focusing on Mormonism as both a meme and an analytic, Weber analyzes a wide range of contemporary media produced by those within and those outside of the mainstream and fundamentalist Mormon churches, from reality television to feature films, from blogs to YouTube videos, and from novels to memoirs by people who struggle to find agency and personhood in the shadow of the church's teachings. The broad archive of mediated Mormonism contains socially conservative values, often expressed through neoliberal strategies tied to egalitarianism, meritocracy, and self-actualization, but it also offers a passionate voice of contrast on behalf of plurality and inclusion. In this, mediated Mormonism and the conversations on social justice that it fosters create the pathway toward an inclusive, feminist-friendly, and queer-positive future for a broader culture that uses Mormonism as a gauge to calibrate its own values.
