Download or read book Planet Polygamous written by Shinie Antony and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night stands, betrayals of body and mind, the Judas kiss of the soul, a world turned traitor 36 tales of infidelity made all the more tragic by a touch of lightness and a mad magic.
Download or read book Out of Eden written by David P. Barash and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of Eden explores the intersection of human polygamous tendencies and the monogamous expectations of Western society through evolutionary biology.
Download or read book Women under Polygamy written by Walter Matthew Gallichan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women under Polygamy by Walter Matthew Gallichan is about women in polygamous marriages. Gallichan explores the role of polygamy in various cultures in history. Contents: "The Origin of the Harem, The Ancient Harem, Mohammed and Polygamy, Ancient Jewish Polygamy, The Women of India, The Cult of Women and Love..."
Download or read book Inside The Mind of a Polygamist written by Eric O Were and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though many people have written books about family, relationships, marriage, and sex, I have never found a book written about polygamy. Since the Old Testament, no polygamist cared to leave behind a written guideline on making things work in a polygamous relationship. The first real polygamist recorded in the Bible was Lamech, a descendant of Cain, Adam's eldest son. Then many more polygamists like Abraham, Esau, Jacob, David, and King Solomon followed suit. Jacob's four wives gave birth to the twelve tribes of Israel. In all his travels and walk with God, even Jacob himself never managed to leave behind a written account on leading more than one wife. King David was a polygamist too. He wrote many Psalms. He never managed to leave behind an exact copy of handling more than one wife in a relationship in all his writings. One of King David's sons, King Solomon, was perhaps one of the most experienced polygamists to have ever graced God's green earth. King Solomon was the most intelligent man of his time. He could even interpret the singing of birds and much more. King Solomon had over seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. Even though he wrote many proverbs and wise sayings, he never cared to leave behind a written copy of why he decided to marry many women and how he managed over one thousand women in a relationship. My Purpose I am angered beyond description when I see society demonizing polygamy while encouraging vices like divorce, separation, abortion, and homosexuality. That is the reason I wrote this book. I couldn't just find a bold book to encourage polygamy while condemning abortion, separation, divorce, and homosexuality. I decided to write one for you. According to a 2020 report by the Wilkinson & Finkbeiner law firm, 50 percent of all marriages in the United States end up in separation or divorce. In short, out of every two couples getting married today, one pair will end up separating or divorcing. Here are the estimates of the researchers according to the Wilkinson & Finkbeiner report: - - Forty-one percent of all first marriages in the United States end in divorce. - Sixty percent of all second marriages in the United States end in divorce. - Seventy-three percent of all third marriages in the United States end in divorce. I was born in the Luhya community in Western Kenya. The Luhya community is the second most prominent tribe in the country. In Luhya land, polygamy reigns. Ironically, Luhya families have some of the lowest divorce rates on the planet. Most divorced men and women in Luhya land were in monogamous relationships before separating or divorcing. You will rarely find divorce cases in polygamous marriages in the Luhya community. What are these males doing right that makes women ready to settle in a relationship where they know they share a male? This book holds the answer to the preceding question. My purpose is to prove once and for all that polygamy is the only remaining cure in helping us to reduce the number of separations and divorce cases that are suffocating our courts. I also want every man and woman to discover how to function in a polygamous relationship. This book is the written guideline you need to succeed in any polygamous relationship-whether you are a man or a woman. My father had three wives, and my biological mother was the third wife. I will introduce you to my entire family in Chapter one. I have three wives. I married my third wife at the age of thirty. By the time you are reading this, I will probably have added another wife or more. You will get my full story in Chapter two. This book will help you explore love, romance, and sex- and how to utilize these three most powerful emotions to make every male or female love you till death do you part. Enjoy.
Download or read book The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men written by Carol Lynn Pearson and published by Pivot Point Books. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Polygamy?" says the mainstream Mormon Church. "We gave that up long ago." Not so, claims noted LDS poet and author Carol Lynn Pearson, who examines the issue as it has never been examined before. Any member of the LDS Church today who enters the practice of polygamy is immediately excommunicated. However, Pearson claims, polygamy itself has never been excommunicated, but has an honored and protected place at the table. It has only been postponed, a fact confirmed by thousands of "eternal sealings" giving a man an assurance that he will claim as wives in heaven the two, three, or even more women he has sequentially married during his lifetime. No such opportunity is available to women. Through her own personal stories, those of her ancestors, and the thousands of stories that came to her through an Internet survey, Pearson shows the power of the Ghost of Eternal Polygamy as it not only waits on the other side to greet the most righteous in heaven, but also haunts the living-hiding in the recesses of the Mormon psyche, inflicting profound pain and fear, assuring women that they are still objects, harming or destroying marriages, bringing chaos to family relationships, leading many to lose faith in the church and in God. Mormon historian and author Dr. Gregory Prince says of The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: "Carol Lynn Pearson has hit a home run in her quest to illuminate both the damage that Mormonism's de facto practice of polygamy continues to inflict, and the route to a better, more humane place. Those who truly hope for eternal polygamy or who resent any call to institutional reform will be upset, but countless others will rejoice that she has shown 'a more excellent way.' "
Download or read book Polygamy in the Monogamous World written by Martha Bailey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fact-filled book on polygamy and plural unions around the world supports an in-depth consideration of policy options for Western countries. Polygamy and plural marriage have become front-and-center issues in Europe, Canada, and the United States, notably on two religious fronts: among some splinter groups of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and in Islam. Polygamy in the Monogamous World: Multicultural Challenges for Western Law and Policy takes both groups into account as it provides a careful examination of legal polygamy in non-Western countries and plural unions in North America. Comparing these similar, but legally distinct forms of union, it offers a fresh perspective on how Western countries should respond to these relationships. Specifically, the book surveys non-Western countries where polygamy is legally practiced, then provides an overview of plural unions in North America. The problems of polygamy and plural unions are examined, including the potential for tne abuse of wives. The responses of Western governments to such relationships are reviewed, and the most effective solutions are identified to ascertain what policies should be adopted going forward.
Download or read book Postcolonial Studies written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new anthology brings together the most diverse and recent voices in postcolonial theory to emerge since 9/11, alongside classic texts in established areas of postcolonial studies. Brings fresh insight and renewed political energy to established domains such as nation, history, literature, and gender Engages with contemporary concerns such as globalization, digital cultures, neo-colonialism, and language debates Includes wide geographical coverage – from Ireland and India to Israel and Palestine Provides uniquely broad coverage, offering a full sense of the tradition, including significant essays on science, technology and development, education and literacy, digital cultures, and transnationalism Edited by a distinguished postcolonial scholar, this insightful volume serves scholars and students across multiple disciplines from literary and cultural studies, to anthropology and digital studies
Download or read book Planet Wedding written by Sandra Choron and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meticulously researched bouquet of more than three hundred fascinating, informative, useful, and always entertaining lists on all things nuptial. Illustrated with over 150 photographs and line drawings, PlanetWedding is a oneof-a-kind compendium for anyone who is getting married, planning a wedding, or is participating in a wedding. Featuring: • Ten Things the Bridal Industry Doesn’tWant You to Know •Wedding Customs from Around theWorld • 231 Money-Saving Tips • How to Tell If You’re a Bridezilla • How to Have a GreenWedding • 12Ways to Preserve Your SanityWhen Planning aWedding • Kids on Dating and Marriage • The Origin of "Something Old, Something New"
Download or read book Mainstream Polygamy written by Dominique Legros and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the forms of knowledge generated by exoticizing the subject studied. It analyzes monogamy in Western cultures from a cultural distance. First, from the cultural perspective of a Kenyan writer who underlines the moral evils unwittingly generated by a system imposing universal monogamy and generating annual cohorts of illegitimate children. Then, the essay considers the case of France, which, starting in the 1970’s, changed its laws regarding children born out of wedlock. Such children have now become legitimate. Unwittingly, this has allowed for polygyny or polyandry to become legal options for French males and females. The analysis is further extended to Western Europe, two Latin American nations and to the contemporary U.S.A. with its polyamory movement, where legal outcomes similar to those of France have occurred. The volume examines monogamy by using the epistemological approach that is typically used in the anthropological study of cultures other than one’s own, showing how exotic and strange the system of monogamy can look, when observed from afar, from the eyes of many non-Westerners. It gives insight into planes of the human Western experience that would normally remain invisible. Students and teachers will delight in the close-to-home debates stimulated by this evocative thought-provoking essay.
Download or read book She Was a Booklegger written by Toni Samek and published by Library Juice Press, LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A compilation of reflections and tales from friends and other admirers who were influenced and inspired by Celeste West, a feminist librarian, lesbian, publisher, and activist"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Answer Them Nothing written by Debra Weyermann and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When police raided the Short Creek compound of the Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1953, it soon became a political and publicity nightmare and eventually cost the governor of Arizona his job. From that point on, skittish public officials allowed the polygamist sect to practice its tenants unmolested for the next 50 years and turned a blind eye to child abandonment, kidnapping, statutory rape, incest, and massive tax and welfare fraud. But then Warren Jeffs, a new FLDS prophet, escalated the sect's crimes to near madness. Activists watched in horror as he used his limitless authority and the resources of a tax-supported community—in essence, a feudal empire on the Utah/Arizona border—to devastate thousands of lives on cruel whims, marrying girls as young as 11 to 60-year-old men and driving off teenage “lost boys” who Jeffs felt threatened his authority. Answer Them Nothing is the chilling story of the victims, activists, prosecutors, judges, cops, and attorneys who in 2001 began the struggle to dismantle the FLDS empire and bring Jeffs and his henchmen to justice. It is a mesmerizing journey into one of America's darkest corners, a story that stretches over three states and deep into history of the powerful Mormon Church.
Download or read book Crimes Associated with Polygamy written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Polygamist written by William Irvine and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man, many wives In The Polygamist, William Irvine explores love, sex, and marriage within the context of an unusual household. An exploration of sexual fantasy and desire, ultimately The Polygamist is a coming of age story with a strong spiritual theme. Set at the end of the seventies, a time when experimentation with alternative lifestyles and sexual relationships was rife, The Polygamist follows the fortunes of Omar Al Ghamdi, Saudi-born but educated in the West; a man who is the product of two irreconcilable cultures. After two decades he has come to experience philandering as increasingly superficial; but vehemently opposed to monogamous fidelity, turns to polygamy as the solution to his high turnover existence. His hope is that taking several wives will provide him with a more honest and satisfying alternative, allowing him to engage in deeper relationships whilst still giving a long enough leash to his sexuality. Having pursued his goal without compromise by entering into serial arranged marriages, he lives with his household on a remote house on Colva Beach in Goa. Does the reality live up to the dream? And, what is it like for the women? How can one man possibly satisfy multiple female partners? Written from an unashamedly male perspective, The Polygamist will appeal to those wishing to understand male sexuality and the desires that shape all of our lives and relationships.
Download or read book Polygamy written by Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forms of plural marriage, or polygamy, are practiced within most of the world's cultures and religions. The amazing variation, versatility and adaptability of polygamy underscore that it is not just an exotic non-Western practice, but also exists in modern Western societies. Polygamy: A Cross-cultural Analysis provides an examination and analysis of historical and contemporary polygamy. It outlines polygamy's place in anthropological theory and its rich sociocultural diversity in countries ranging from the USA and UK to Malaysia, India, regions of Africa and Tibet. Polygamy also addresses often difficult and controversial issues facing modern polygamists, such as prejudice, HIV/AIDS and women's emancipation. Polygamy: A Cross-cultural Analysis offers an anthropological overview of the fascinating yet often misunderstood institution of polygamy.
Download or read book The Trial of Monogamy written by Dr. Oliver Akamnonu and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-02-27 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A male child Udoka, born to a family of five daughters and one son is raised by his single mother after the boy’s father dies prematurely in a rural third world community. The boy drops out of school at a very early age and joins the company of village loafers called “ofekes” and “ofo-ogolis.” These specialize in hanging around where there are wedding ceremonies, burial, and chieftaincy installation ceremonies, venues where there will be free food and free drinks. During one of such ceremonies in which Mr. Odike his cousin is taking a second wife, the uneducated Udoka sees, and falls in love with Chioma who is educated and who hails from a completely different social background being a catechist’s daughter. Udoka gets rebuffed. Twist of fate again brings both young people together and through encouragement from Chioma, Udoka goes to school, progresses, and ultimately marries Chioma. Further twist of fate sees the couple move over to Atlanta in America where Chioma trains for, and becomes a registered nurse and starts earning well. Her new situation positions Chioma into seeing Dr. Gerald an attending consultant in the hospital where she works. Chioma falls in love with the rich medical doctor and without provocation, divorces her beleaguered husband who, laden with the burden of debts and child support, flees from Atlanta back to his Akunwanta native land. Chioma gets disappointed by Dr. Gerald after she aborts a baby she was expecting for him. The polygamous nature of the common Akunwanta origin of the divorced former couple holds out the only opportunity whereby Chioma can find a place as a second wife to a now prosperous and polygamous Udoka. The monogamy by law policy in Atlanta as opposed to the accepted polygamy by culture in Akunwanta plays out favorably for both parties as it becomes possible for Udoka to remain monogamous in Atlanta but polygamous in Akunwanta. One man’s apparent poison plays out as another man’s delicious meat. Will the one learn from the other?
Download or read book Polygamy written by John Hanson Beadle and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Distasteful Life Choice Polygamy written by Robonnir Kijuga Kahumyo and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we actually understand who Jesus Christ is in our lives, then He will certainly direct the personal choices that we always make daily and we will be able to avoid awful choices, like polygamy, which is one of the major foes in our homes. When our choices are God's choices, then we will surely have the good idiosyncrasy. For most of us, we have always been taught from a young age that a normal relationship should be between two different people of opposite sexes only. Anything beyond that is no longer considered health. That is called polygamy. And I wish to present to you a few pros and cons of polygamy: Few pros of polygamy: - It gives people freedom of choice when it comes to marrying whom they love. - It offers the husband more prestige and He will also have more options when it comes to sexual companionship, which makes him the envy of his peers. - It provides a better supports system and this eliminates the risk of depression among the members, especially the children. - It guarantees financial stability of the household, which will then have more income, which can be shared by everyone. - It has an abundance of love, when you have children from all spouses, and you will have even more love to last you a lifetime. - It prevents adultery and reduces adultery to a non issue and prevents the temptation of cheating on your spouse. Few cons of polygamy: - It can be the cause for abuse of power simply the man might think that he can be unfair to his wives just because they have consent over the relationship. - It brings jealousy then favoritism among your children can also cause jealousy and emotional distress. - It could prevent a person from spending quality time or this can also cause problems in the long run, especially when it comes to the younger ones, emotional development. - It can lead to abuse which can lead the wives to becoming more submissive to their husband, fearing that they might be replaced with a new wife. - It affects the children most, so children might tease them for having more than one mother in their house. - It could make women feel neglected, one of the wives could get hurt, especially when the man in the house brings in a new wife. Note: Polygamy can encourage the idea that women are considered objects that men can owe. Eventually, this can lead to abuse.
