The importance of being monogamous
marriage and nation building in Western Canada to 1915
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2008 - University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Alberta
Language
English
Word Count
95,750 words, Guess
Page Count
383 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveimportanceofbein00cart
- Internet Archiveimportancebeingm00cart
- ISBN-100888644906
- ISBN-139780888644909
- LibraryThing6418197
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- Library of Congress Control Number2008428217
- OCLC Control Number185022639
- Better World Books9780888644909
- Open LibraryOL22692966M
Classifications
- DDC306.84/2209712
- LCCHQ560.15.W4 C37 2008
- LCCHQ560.15
Description
"Sarah Carter provides a detailed analysis of marriage as a diverse social institution in nineteenth-century Western Canada. She charts the ascendancy of Christian, lifelong, heterosexual, monogamous marriage as an instrument to shape and institutionalize the gender order as the foundation of this new region of the nation. It took great effort to impose the monogamous model of marriage on a varied population of Aboriginal people and newcomers such as the Mormons, each with their own definitions of marriage, including polygamy and flexible attitudes toward divorce. The work concludes with an explanation of the negative consequences for women, particularly Aboriginal women, that arose as a result of the imposition of monogamous marriage."--Jacket.
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- West unbound
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