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| Title: | Importance of Being Monogamous
: Marriage & Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915 |
| Author: | Sarah Carter |
| ISBN: | 0888644906 : 9780888644909 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 384 |
| Weight: | .33 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Alberta Press (Athabasca University Press) - April 2008 |
| List Price: | 23.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Canada: Social & cultural history: Indigenous peoples |
Provides a detailed description of marriage as a diverse social institution in nineteenth-century Western Canada, and the subsequent ascendancy of Christian, lifelong, heterosexual, monogamous marriage as an instrument to implement dominant British-Canadian values. It took work to impose the monogamous model of marriage as the region was home to a varied population of Aboriginal people and newcomers such as the Mormons, each of whom had their 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 as a result of the imposition of monogamous marriage.
Creating, Challenging, Imposing, and Defending the Marriage "Fortress"; Customs Not in Common; Making Newcomers to Western Canada Monogamous; "A Striking Contrast... Where Perpetuity of Union and Exclusiveness is Not a Rule, at Least Not a Strict Rule"; The 1886 "Traffic in Indian Girls" Panic and the Foundation of the Federal Approach to Aboriginal Marriage and Divorce; Creating "Semi-Widows" and "Supernumerary Wives"; "Undigested, Conflicting and Inharmonious"; Index.
