Description: More Wives Than One Mormon Marriage System 1840-1910 LDS 1st Ed HCDJ Manti UT______________________________________ More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910by Kathryn M. DaynesPublished by University of Illinois Press (2001) Condition:Excellent 1st Edition Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket! A Very clean copy! The binding is tight and all 305 pages within are bright white with no writing, underlining, high-lighting, rips, or tears. There is a few pages within that have a slight corner bend, but other than this, the covers look perfect; and the dust jacket is in excellent condition with no rips, folds or tears, as can be seen in my photos. You will be happy with this one! Always handled carefully and packaged securely! Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking! About the Book:When Joseph Smith announced his revelation that plural marriage was essential to attaining the highest level of eternal salvation, he introduced what became the most notorious aspect of Mormon culture. More Wives Than One offers the first in-depth look at the long-term interaction between belief and the practice of polygamy, or plural marriage, among the Latter-day Saints. Focusing on the small community of Manti, Utah, Kathryn M. Daynes shows that plural marriage encompassed several forms of marriage endorsed by the church, each with its own rights and responsibilities. She gives a clear picture of the factors shaping the practice, who was likely to enter into a plural marriage, and how the practice dovetailed with Mormon convictions about the crucial role of families in solving social problems. She also explicates the web of beliefs about God-centered marriages and familial responsibility that underlay how plural marriage was experienced. During the frontier period, territorial laws in Utah allowed the Saints sufficient autonomy to develop their distinctive marriage patterns. As settlement progressed, however, the federal government -- prodded by late nineteenth-century family reformers -- took an increasingly aggressive role in squelching anomalous practices of both marriage and divorce, eroding the ability of plural wives and children to inherit and ultimately disfranchising women and polygamists. Cogent and impeccably documented, More Wives Than One will enlighten both scholars and general readers on an intriguing and much-misunderstood chapter of Mormon history. Some Book Reviews:Vince Snow rated it & it was amazingAn amoral look at polygamy in Utah from 1840-1910. I found the book immensely fascinating.Things I found interesting:- I found the three time periods really interesting where most of the plural marriages entered into happened early on and people practiced it less and less until the Manifesto.- I found it interesting that it helped re-distribute wealth in the area since wealthier men were economically stable enough to support more wives and children, at the same time it makes the marriage feel very transactional- Some of the views seem really dated now (separate from the view that one man should take more than one woman as a wife ha ha) like the view that if a woman has sex while she is pregnant that will make the child predispositioned to be a sexual deviant. Ergo, the solution for the male sex drive is that while one wife is pregnant a man can get his sexual needs met from a different wife.- I found it interesting that divorce was used as a safety valve that really allowed the practice to occur.- I found it interesting that due to divorce, death, economic situations, etc men that had plural wives rarely lived with more than two wives at a time.Overall, I found it very fascinating and it illuminated a lot of the details of how polygamy actually worked as a practice. Brian rated it & it was amazing!Rather than a judgement call on the morality of polygamy Daynes gives us an academic overview of polygamy and a thorough analysis of the doctrine, justification, motivations, and lived experiences of those who preached and practiced polygamy. A fair amount of statistics are drawn from her own work as well as census data and information gathered and interpreted by previous investigators of Mormon Polygamy. I enjoyed the entire book but the final chapter was worth the purchase price itself as she synthesizes the social norms was that were abandoned and then replaced with new norms (polygamy) then forcibly abandoned again. She ends with a few pages on fundamentalist splinter groups that seem to go through similar periods of anomie (normlessness) but in an age when it is increasingly difficult to live separate from wider society. An excellent resource! Martha Smith rated it & it was amazing!Mormon studies/sociology/religion/history... If you like these you will enjoy this book as much as I did. Kathryn M. Daynes's book is the most important study to date of plural marriage in the nineteenth-century Utah and is especially significant for its detailed analysis of the demographics of Mormonism's 'peculiar institution.'" I have read this book twice and I think it is time for me to read it once more. Copyright © 2018-2022 TDM Inc. The photos and text in this listing are copyrighted. 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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
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Type: Picture Book
Features: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
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Book Series: Historical
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
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Book Title: More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Item Length: 9in.
Item Width: 6in.
Author: Kathryn M. Daynes
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Christianity / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon), Christian Life / Love & Marriage, General, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication Year: 2001
Genre: Religion, Social Science
Item Weight: 24.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
