The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915

by Sarah Carter

Sarah Carter 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888644906
• ISBN13: 9780888644909
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up