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230 pages ; 25 cm
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Esteemed writer and evolutionary biologist David P. Barash tackles this uncomfortable finding: that humans are actually biologically and anthropologically inclined toward polygamy. Drawing on decades of research, Barash presents a remarkable array of scientific evidence from evolutionary biology and cross-cultural studies that guide the reader through the hidden impacts of polygamy on such crucial behavior as violence, parenting, sexual preferences,...
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After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double—or rather, a quintuple—life. Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, has apparently been supporting four other families for many years. Rami remains calm in the face of her husband's duplicity and plots to make an honest man out of him. After Tony is forced to marry the four other women—as well as an additional lover—according to polygamist custom, the...
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A powerful and heart-wrenching story of one woman's struggle with polygamy
After spending her life fantasizing about her dream husband, Ana believes she has finally found the one when she meets Alec Coleman. He is charming, witty, and has looks to die for. The two feel an instant attraction, and it seems that Ana's dreams have finally come true.
But when, Alec rekindles a relationship with his former ex-girlfriend, Ana's perfect life soon spirals...
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Set on a Mormon ranch in nineteenth-century Utah, and inspired by the real events of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, Alissa York's Effigy is a haunting story of a polygamous family united by faith but separated by secrets.
At the heart of the novel is Dorrie, the fourth wife of rancher, hunter, and horse breeder Erastus Hammer. A pale child bride with a mass of untamable black hair, she cannot recall anything of her life before she recovered...
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Marriage has not always meant just one man and one woman. For much of human history, the most common alternative was polygamy: marriage involving more than one spouse. However, polygamy has come to symbolize a problematic, even "barbaric," form of marriage that is often labeled as "backwards," embodying the oppression of women by men.
In Polygamy: A Very Short Introduction, Sarah M. S. Pearsall explores what plural marriages reveal about the inner...
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Before Big Love, before Eldorado, a groundbreaking memoir explored polygamy, not with outrage but with honesty and grace. In 1984, when polygamous groups knew little but the fear and pain of secrecy and hiding, Dorothy Allred Solomon, the twenty-eighth of forty-eight children, went public with her family's story.
Descended from five generations of Mormon polygamy, Solomon evokes the fervor and dedication that bound the Allreds to "living the Principle."...
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"Polygamy in Islam: Understanding Tradition, Context, and Contemporary Perspectives"In the captivating pages of "Polygamy in Islam: Understanding Tradition, Context, and Contemporary Perspectives," readers embark on an enlightening journey through the complex layers of one of Islam's most debated topics. This meticulously researched book offers a comprehensive exploration of polygamous marriages, inviting readers to navigate the historical, cultural,...
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viii, 285 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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The daughter of the self-proclaimed prophet of the FLDS Church describes the abusive patriarchal culture in which she was raised by sister wives and dominating men and discusses how her father remains a powerful influence on his followers.
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In the same way the eater rush upon their bowl, all cultural circles in both East and West have rushed upon "the Islamites" criticizing and defaming.
They accused us of encroachment upon woman's right, so they rendered their unfair judgment which declares that we "the community of Moslems' are enemies and tyrants of woman; nay, we are a nation that all other nations laughed at for its negligence and oppression, particularly in regard to the issues...
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Arabic
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In the same way the eater rush upon their bowl, all cultural circles in both East and West have rushed upon "the Islamites" criticizing and defaming.
They accused us of encroachment upon woman's right, so they rendered their unfair judgment which declares that we "the community of Moslems' are enemies and tyrants of woman; nay, we are a nation that all other nations laughed at for its negligence and oppression, particularly in regard to the issues...
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The title of the book “Islam Discourages Polygamy and Divorce-A Reality, Not a Myth” is self-explanatory. It is generally, believed that Muslims are a polygamous community and Islam grants unfettered liberty for practicing polygamy. Fact of the matter is that prior to the manifestation of Islam, ancient Arabs as also Non-Arabs professing different religions could have as many wives as they liked. Thus, Islamic injunction was really a restrictive...
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Life for Irene Spencer was a series of devastating disappointments and hardships. Irene's first book, Shattered Dreams, is the staggering chronicle of her struggle to provide for her children in abject poverty and feelings of abandonment each time her husband left to be with one of his other wives. Irene was raised to believe that polygamy was the way of life necessary for her ticket to heaven. The hard knocks of her environment were just the beginning...
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For radio shock jock Nancy Neptune, life is just one big promotion. But when she's sent to work at a radio station near a polygamist compound in Utah, trouble comes in triplicate. In a land where one good wife deserves another, Nancy Neptune hooks up with a drag queen and a one-armed reporter to rescue a mentally challenged polygamist who is being abused by one of his nine mommies and neglected by the other eight. Jitters-A Quirky Little Audio Book...
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There are many Polygamist cults in North America with different doctrines, and only one overriding belief in common which is to marry very young girls to very old men and throw away the young men. Young men who are competing for wives of their own. Education is only to 6th grade and for girls it is optional. Depraved behavior, incest and suffering is a way of life, so is lack of food and housing. The States of Utah and Arizona pay about 18 million...
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A powerful and heart-wrenching story of one woman's struggle with polygamy
After spending her life fantasizing about her dream husband, Ana believes she has finally found the one when she meets Alec Coleman. He is charming, witty, and has looks to die for. The two feel an instant attraction, and it seems that Ana's dreams have finally come true.
But when Alec rekindles a relationship with his former ex-girlfriend, Ana's perfect life soon spirals...
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477 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Hanna has never been outside her secluded community of Clearhaven. She has never questioned why her father has four wives or why she has fourteen brothers and sisters. And in only one week, on her eighteenth birthday, Hanna will follow tradition and become the fifth wife of a man more than twice her age. But just days before the wedding, Hanna meets an enigmatic stranger who challenges her to question her fate and follow her own will. And when her...
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247 pages ; 22 cm
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In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of South West Asia, gender selection, war and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and women must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible. Yet there are women who resist, women who live in an underground collective and refuse to be part of the system. Secretly protected by the highest...
20) Amity & sorrow
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443 pages ; 23 cm.
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A mother and two daughters drive for days without sleep until their car crashes in rural Oklahoma. The mother, Amaranth, fears her husband will follow them to the ends of the earth. The girls, Amity and Sorrow, can't imagine the world outside their father's polygamous compound. Rescue comes in the unlikely form of Bradley, a farmer grieving the loss of his wife. At first unwelcoming, Bradley allows his abiding tolerance to get the best of him.
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