The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915 (The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies)

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Sarah Carter provides a detailed description of marriage as a diverse social institution in nineteenth-century Western Canada, and the next ascendancy of Christian, lifelong, heterosexual, monogamous marriage as an instrument to put in force dominant British-Canadian values. It took work to impose the monogamous model of marriage as the region was once home to a varied population of Aboriginal people and newcomers such as the Mormons, each and every of whom had their very 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 Aboriginal women, that arose on account of the imposition of monogamous marriage.

“Of a massive amount of new and pathbreaking research on Native people during the last 20 years, this work sticks out.” -Sidney L. Harring, Professor of Law at City University of New York and writer of White Man’s Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence

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