By Janet Bennion,Lisa Fishbayn Joffe
The members to this volume--scholars of legislation, anthropology, sociology, political technological know-how, economics, and non secular studies--disentangle diversified sorts of polygamy and polyamory practiced between a number spiritual and nationwide backgrounds together with Mormon and Muslim. They chart the harms and merits those versions have on training ladies, young children, and males, whether or not they are self sustaining households or individuals of coherent non secular teams. members additionally handle the complexities of comparing this manner of marriage and the moral and criminal matters surrounding legislation of the perform, together with the professionals and cons of legalization.
Plural marriage is the following frontier of North American marriage legislation and probably the subsequent civil rights battlefield. scholars and students attracted to polygamy, marriage, and kin will locate a lot of curiosity in The Polygamy Question.
Contributors include Kerry Abrams, Martha Bailey, Lori Beaman, Janet Bennion, Jonathan Cowden, Shoshana Grossbard, Melanie Heath, Debra Majeed, Rose McDermott, Sarah music, and Maura Irene Strassberg.
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