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Polygamy: A Very Short Introduction: Very Short Introduction

Autor Sarah M. S. Pearsall
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 apr 2022
Marriage has not always meant just one man and one woman. For much of human history, over much of the globe, the most common alternative was polygamy: marriage involving more than one spouse. Polygamy, or plural marriage, has long been an accepted form of union in human societies, involving people living on every continent. However, polygamy has come to symbolize a problematic, even “barbaric,” form of marriage that is often labeled as “backwards,” less modern and progressive, 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 workings of marriage and describes the controversies surrounding it. The book emphasizes the diversity of historical polygamist societies, from the Shi'ite Muslims and Wendat men who practiced short-term marriages to the Mixteca, Maori, Inca, Algonquin, and Marta indigenous people of North America and the Pacific Islands, as well as medieval Irish kings, rulers of the Kingdom of Buganda in east Africa, and residents of the Ottoman Empire. Pearsall also explains the Old Testament origins of polygamy in the book of Genesis, making note of vocal Protestant defenders of the practice such as Martin Luther and John Milton, and the divides within Christianity that led to Joseph Smith's establishment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) and the Mormons' fight throughout the 19th-century under his successor Brigham Young's leadership to freely practice plural marriage.Polygamy: A Very Short Introduction looks at how polygamous domestic and sexual relationships have influenced larger dynamics of power, gender, rank, race, and religion in societies all over the world, while also attempting to untangle the paradox of female constraint and liberty for women who advocated for polygamy, arguing that plural marriage offered security and stability rather than restraint for women. In balancing an explanation of the many complexities and misunderstandings of plural marriage, the book reveals how polygamy continues to have an influence on society today.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197533178
ISBN-10: 0197533175
Pagini: 144
Ilustrații: 10 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 110 x 175 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Very Short Introduction

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

Sarah M. S. Pearsall is Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and previously taught early American and Atlantic history at Cambridge University, where she was a fellow of Robinson College. Her work on marriages and families has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the British Academy. She is the author of Polygamy An Early American History.

Recenzii

“Pearsall’s narrative is expansive and stretches over two hundred years. . . . This long view does not allow the author to concentrate on a central cast of characters largely because it cannot. American polygamy was too ubiquitous and amorphous for this to be possible. This is not a shortcoming of the book, however, but a strength, because it allows Pearsall to paint a broader, more dynamic picture of American polygamy.”—Christopher M. Gleason, Journal of the History of Sexuality

“Cambridge historian Sarah Pearsall has produced a richly sourced, elegantly written, and strikingly original interdisciplinary study of the diverse practices of polygamy in American from ca.1500 to 1900.”—John Witte Jr., Journal of Law and Religion

“Pearsall’s volume is an informative analysis of an oft-misunderstood subject.”—Benjamin M. Guyer, Anglican and Episcopal History

“This is an important study, one that is carefully crafted, deeply researched, and written in engaging, accessible prose. . . . This book is essential reading for those in our own times who assume that monogamy is inevitably progressive, and polygamy is inevitably regressive.”—Sarah Carter, Journal of Arizona History

“Polygamy does a remarkable job of displacing the construction of monogamy as universal in the Atlantic world. Moreover, Pearsall underscores the active participation and consent of women who entered plural marriages.”—Sandra Slater, Journal of Southern History

A richly sourced, elegantly written, and strikingly original interdisciplinary study of the diverse practices of polygamy in America from ca. 1500 to 1900. . . . [A] brilliant new book.”—John Witte, Jr., Journal of Law and Religion

“As the first book on the topic, Sarah M. S. Pearsall’s book provides fresh insight into the complex history of early modern American polygamy, dispelling the myth that it began with the Mormons.”—Christopher M. Gleason, Journal of the History of Sexuality

“Pearsall artfully demonstrates how religion, gender, sexuality, and race are entangled. . . . Polygamy’s broad overview makes the text a significant contribution for historians working across multiple fields.”—Cristina Rosetti, American Religion

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, 2020

“Sarah Pearsall’s work is stunningly original, riveting, shocking.  If anyone still thinks of early modern polygamy as a thread that ran intermittently along the fringes of the Reformation, they have another think coming: African, Native American, Catholic, and, finally, Mormon marital practices upend comforting platitudes about ‘traditional’ marriage in early America.”—Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania

“By taking polygamy seriously, Sarah Pearsall illuminates the long, tangled history of marriages across four centuries and many cultures in North America. We see diverse American families in fresh and provocative ways thanks to Pearsall’s wide-ranging research and vivid prose.”—Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804

“An innovative and thought-provoking book. Sarah Pearsall uses polygamy as a point of entry to the broader world of marriage and the gender roles that attended to it, making a strong argument that such matters were intertwined with the expression of power at all levels in early America.”—Christopher Hodson, Brigham Young University

“Sarah Pearsall shows great intellectual range and a wonderful ability to communicate complex ideas elegantly.”—Kathleen Brown, University of Pennsylvania