Бумажные издания
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Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915 Сара Картер
ISBN: 0888644906, 9780888644909 Год издания: 2004 Издательство: University of Alberta Press Язык: Английский Sarah Carter provides a detailed description of marriage as a diverse social institution in nineteenth-century Western Canada, and the subsequent ascendancy of Christian, lifelong, heterosexual, monogamous marriage as an instrument to implement dominant British-Canadian values. It took work to impose the monogamous model of marriage as the region was home to a varied population of Aboriginal people and newcomers such as the Mormons, each of whom had their own definitions of marriage, including polygamy and flexible attitudes toward divorce. The work concludes with an explanation of the negative social consequences for women, particularly…