transformation of the Mormon marriage system, 1840-1910 /
Kathryn M. Daynes
Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
c2001
x, 305 p. :
ill., 1 map ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-296) and index
Kirtland and Nauvoo: beginnings of plural marriage -- Plural marriage under Mormon control -- Nineteenth-century marriage law in Utah -- The nature of Mormon marriages -- The marriage market -- Women who became plural wives -- Economics and plural marriage -- Civil and ecclesiastical divorce -- Incidence of divorce and remarriage -- The decline of plural marriage -- The nineteenth-century Mormon marriage system
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints-- History
Marriage-- Religious aspects-- Mormon Church-- History of doctrines