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The Dead Sea Scrolls show that several smaller Jewish sects forbade polygamy before and during the first century. [161] [162] [163] The Temple Scroll (11QT LVII 17–18) seems to prohibit polygamy. [162] [164] The rabbinical era, beginning with the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, saw a continuation of some degree of legal acceptance ...
Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History [1] is a 1989 book, edited by Kumkum Sangari [2] and Sudesh Vaid, [3] published by Kali for Women in India and by the Rutgers University Press in the United States. The anthology attempts to explore the inter-relation of patriarchies with political economy, law, religion and culture and to suggest a ...
In framing polygamy as both a society structure and a religious practice, Ulrich shows how Mormon women, many of whom were involved in polygamous relationships, became actively involved in political and social causes. [a] Ulrich argues that polygamy empowered women to become political actors, particularly in the suffrage movement. Ulrich also ...
Polygamy is a crime and punishable by a fine, imprisonment, or both, according to the law of the individual state and the circumstances of the offense. [18] Polygamy was outlawed in federal territories by the Edmunds Act, and there are laws against the practice in all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, Guam, [19] and Puerto Rico. [20]
2002 – Nevada amends its state constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage and polygamy. 2004 – Massachusetts grants and recognizes same-sex marriages, while 14 states rush to outlaw same-sex marriage and polygamy through their state constitutions in response. 2005 – Texas amends its state constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage and polygamy.
The DNA analysis also indicates that most of the ancestral line could be traced back to a single woman. The work indicates that this society was what is known as matrilocal - meaning that a ...
Inherent in the study of women's history is the belief that more traditional recordings of history have minimised or ignored the contributions of women to different fields and the effect that historical events had on women as a whole; in this respect, women's history is often a form of historical revisionism, seeking to challenge or expand the ...
Legal efforts to eradicate polygamy have persisted well into the 21st century. These efforts, such as the 1953 Short Creek Raid conducted by the state of Arizona, clandestine surveillance of suspected polygamists throughout the 1900s by Utah law enforcement, [ 3 ] and Brown v Buhman [ 4 ] in 2016 have proved to be unpopular and ineffective.