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English
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Polygamy in America
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Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism
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Cambridge
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Cambridge University Press
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142-168
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"In this chapter, as in the previous two chapters, we have seen how the gender norms of the dominant culture have shaped its responses to the gender practices of minority cultures. In the case of nineteenth-century Mormon polygamy, the dominant culture's opposition to polygamy appears to have been motivated less by a concern to empower women and more by a desire to uphold the public morals of the dominant culture. Citizens and public officials opposing polygamy sought to protect Christian-model monogamy, and the focus of Mormon polygamy helped shield the dominant culture's own patriarchal practices from criticms." [From author's conclusion]