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Many hold a deep fascination with Mormonism but erroneously think of it as a secret religion that celebrates polygamy and confinement. Most outsiders regard Latter-day Saint women as submissive and pitiable. InThe Sisterhood, award-winning author Dorothy Allred Solomon takes us inside the lives of women of the faith. She focuses on the roles of Mormon women in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, including fascinating personal stories about family, children, and husbands. She takes us into the lives of the High Priestesses of the Church, draws on histories sustained by the most thorough genealogical records in the world, and addresses the wives of polygamists.The Sisterhoodsheds light on an expanding and complex religion and offers a long overdue portrait of Mormonism and women.Solomon, Dorothy Allred is the author of 'Sisterhood Inside the Lives of Mormon Women', published 2007 under ISBN 9781403982780 and ISBN 1403982783.
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