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Polygamy : a cross-cultural analysis.
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ISBN: 9781845202200 9781845202217 1845202201 184520221X Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford Berg


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Exposé of Polygamy : a lady's life among the Mormons
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ISBN: 087421713X 9786612445835 1282445839 0874217148 9780874217148 9780874217131 Year: 2008 Publisher: Utah State University, University Libraries

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After the 1872 publication of Exposé of Polygamy, Fanny Stenhouse became a celebrity in the cultural wars between Mormons and much of America. An English convert to Mormonism, she had grown disillusioned with the Mormon Church and with polygamy, which her husband practiced before associating with a circle of dissident Utah intellectua ls and merchants. Stenhouse's critique of plural marriage, Brigham Young, and Mormonism was also a sympathetic look at Utah's people and honest recounting of her life. Before long, she created a new edition, titled Tell It All, which ensured her notoriety in Utah and popularity elsewhere but turned her thoughtful memoir into a more polemical, true exposé. Since 1874, it has stayed in print, in multiple, varying editions. The original book, meanwhile, is less known, though more readable. Tracing the literary history of Stenhouse's important piece of Americana, Linda DeSimone rescues an important autobiographical and historical record from the baggage notoriety brought to it.

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Mormon Church --- Polygamy --- Doctrines. --- Religious aspects --- Mormon Church. --- Stenhouse, T. B. H., --- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints --- Multiple marriage --- Plural marriage --- Stenhouse, Fanny, --- Warn, Fanny, --- Biserica lui Isus Hristos a Sfinților din Zilele din Urmă --- Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints --- Cerkev Jezusa Kristusa svetih iz poslednjih dni --- Chiesa di Gesù Cristo dei Santi degli Ultimi Giorni --- Crkva Isusa Krista Svetaca Posljednjih Dana --- Cirkev Jez̆is̆a Krista Svätých neskors̆ích dní --- Církev Jez̆ís̆e Krista Svatých posledních dnů --- Església de Jesucrist dels Sants dels Darrers Dies --- Église de Jésus-Christ des Saints des Derniers Jours --- Ekklēsia tou Iēsou Christou tōn Agiōn tōn Teleutaiōn Ēmerōn --- Esucristo ittoed nega esordamar napi puguad onosa --- Gereja Yesus Kristus Dari Orang-Orang Suci Zaman Akhir --- Giáo hội các thánh hữu ngày sau của Chúa Giê su Ky tô --- Hisus Kʻristosěn Akhěr-Kiwnlēr Mugattēslēri Kʻilisēsi --- Hisus Kʻristosi Verjin-Awur Srbotsʻ Ekeghetsʻi --- Hisus Kʻristosi Verjin Ōreri Srberi Ekeghetsʻi --- Hisus Kʻristosi Verjin Ōreri Srberi Ekeghetsʻu koghmitsʻ --- Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días --- Igreja de Jesus Cristo dos Santos dos Últimos Dias --- Iyēcu Kiristuvin̲ Tiruccapai --- Jesu Kristi kirke af sidste dages hellige --- Jesu Kristi kirke av siste dagers hellige --- Jesu Kristi Kyrka av Sista Dagars Heliga --- Jesus Christ N'ascr a Cwc Hc Ma Ekyrmba Ahotseweelfo --- Jesucriston Khep Khepürunacanquiri Kollananac Tamapan mistuyata --- Kanīsat Yasūʻ al-Masīḥ li-Qiddīsī al-Ayyām al-Akhīrah --- Kerk van Jesus Christus van die Heiliges van die Laaste Dae --- Kerk Van Jezus Christus Van De Heiligen Der Laatste Dagen --- Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage --- Kirkja Jesú Krists hinna Síđari daga heilögu --- Kisha e Jezu Krishtit e Shenjtorëve të Ditëve të Mëvonshme --- Kościół Jezusa Chrystusa Świętych w Dniach Ostatnich --- LDS Church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) --- Myöhempien Aikojen Pyhien Jeesuksen Kristuksen Kirkko --- Pēdējo Dienu Svēto Jēzus Kristus Baznīca --- Ri Ruk'ataj ri Jesucristo quichin ri Chojlaxela' chupan ri ruq'uisibel tak K'ij --- Simbahan ni Jésukristo sa mga Santos sa Ulahing mga Adlaw --- T︠s︡ŭrkvata na Isus Khristos na svetiite ot poslednite dni --- Utolsó Napok Szentjeinek Jézus Krisztus Egyháza --- Viimse Aja Pühade Jeesuse Kristuse Kirik --- Εκκλησία του Ιησού Χριστού των Αγίων των Τελευταίων Ημερών --- كنيسة يسوع المسيح لقديسي الأيام الأخيرة --- Церкви Иисуса Христа Святых последних дней --- Церкви Ісуса Христа Святих Останніх Днів --- 耶穌基督末世聖徒教會 --- 耶蘇基督末世聖徒教會 --- 末日聖徒イエス・キリスト教会 --- Esu̇s Khristiĭn Khozhmyn U̇eiĭn Gėgėėntnu̇u̇diĭn Su̇m --- Marriage --- Non-monogamous relationships --- Anti-Mormonism --- Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints --- Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonites) --- Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times --- Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) --- Simbahan ni Jesucristo sang mga Santos sa Ulihing mga Adlaw --- Relief Society (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) --- Church Educational System (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) --- Unified Church School System (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) --- Latter Day Saint churches --- Latter Day Saint churches. --- Mormonism --- Christian sects

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