"Using narratives from women in the Allred Mormom community,
[Bennion] is able to show a variety of women's experiences, voices,
and realities which reveal the positive and negative aspects of
polygyny for these Mormon women. Women of Principle is a
provocative study that will be of great interest to students and
scholars of religion, anthropology, and gender studies."--Center
for Women and Religion Newsletter
"...she persuasively challenges predominant stereotypes about
women's experience in patriarchal religions....Women of Principle
is brisk, lively, and engrossing....Recommended for general readers
and all academic levels."--Choice
"...Bennion's study sheds new light on women's search for
alternative forms of marriage and family in unconventional
religious movements."--The Journal of Religion
"Using narratives from women in the Allred Mormom community,
[Bennion] is able to show a variety of women's experiences, voices,
and realities which reveal the positive and negative aspects of
polygyny for these Mormon women. Women of Principle is a
provocative study that will be of great interest to students and
scholars of religion, anthropology, and gender studies."--Center
for Women and Religion Newsletter
"...she persuasively challenges predominant stereotypes about
women's experience in patriarchal religions....Women of Principle
is brisk, lively, and engrossing....Recommended for general readers
and all academic levels."--Choice
"[An] excellent social anthropological work [examining]
contemporary polygamy among fundamentalists with just enough
history to show that the roots of these movements are undeniably
Mormon."--Journal of Mormon History
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