TY - BOOK AU - Kilbride,Philip Leroy AU - Page,Douglas R. TI - Plural marriage for our times: a reinvented option? SN - 9780313384783 (hardcopy : alk. paper) AV - HQ988 .K48 2012 U1 - 306.84/23 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Santa Barbara, Calif. PB - Praeger KW - Polygamy KW - Marriage KW - United States KW - Families N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Slow-motion polygamy in America : why a second edition -- The monogamous ideal in western tradition and America : variations -- Critical influences on plural marriage -- Economics and decline of monogamous marriage in the United States -- The non-monogamous in North America -- Latter day saints explained -- Living in polygyny today -- The family reinvented : early Euro-American feminists -- African American marriage crisis -- Polygyny's purgatory -- Benefits of legalizing polygyny -- Religious foundations : a cultural critique -- A love and commitment not to be feared -- Fear and the slippery slope toward tolerance ER -