Philip L. Kilbride, Douglas R. Page

Plural Marriage for Our Times (eBook, ePUB)

A Reinvented Option?

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This thoroughly revised second edition offers a child-centered, international perspective as it urges America to de-stigmatize alternate family forms. In this book's first edition, Philip L. Kilbride showed polygamy as the preferred marriage pattern in most parts of the nonwestern world and explained how plural marriage is surfacing in western countries to address economic and spiritual crises. In Plural Marriage for Our Times: A Reinvented Option? Second Edition, Kilbride and his coauthor, Douglas R. Page, update and enhance this thesis in light of contemporary circumstances, new studies, and current legal debates. This new edition examines plural marriage's benefits for children. It extends the discussion of polygamy and religion, especially the Muslim perspective on marriage and family; considers the illegal polygamy of immigrants; and looks at multiple marriage in African American communities, where "crisis polygamy" is a growing phenomenon. The authors suggest Americans consider plural marriage as a viable practice that can help reduce the divorce rate, better protect women and children, and serve as an alternative to the "fractured family" so prevalent in America today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216128847
• Artikelnr.: 68354065

Autorenporträt

PHILIP L. KILBRIDE is Professor of Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College, where he has taught for 25 years. He has coauthored Changing Family Life in East Africa (1990) and Encounters with American Ethnic Culture (1990).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments 1 Slow-Motion Polygamy in America: Why a Second
Edition 2 The Monogamous Ideal in Western Tradition and America: Variations
3 Critical Influences on Plural Marriage 4 Economics and Decline of
Monogamous Marriage in the United States 5 The Nonmonogamous in North
America 6 Latter-day Saints Explained 7 Living in Polygyny Today 8 The
Family Reinvented: Early Euro-American Feminists 9 African American
Marriage Crisis 10 Polygyny's Purgatory 11 The Benefits of Legalizing
Plural Marriage 12 Religious Foundations: A Cultural Critique 13 A Love and
Commitment Not to Be Feared 14 Fear and the Slippery Slope toward Tolerance
References and Further Reading Index