In this Book
- Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
summary
In Baring Witness, Holly Welker and thirty-six Mormon women write about devotion and love and luck, about the wonder of discovery, and about the journeys, both thorny and magical, to humor, grace, and contentment. They speak to a diversity of life experiences: what happens when one partner rejects Church teachings; marrying outside one's faith; the pain of divorce and widowhood; the horrors of spousal abuse; the hard journey from visions of an idealized marriage to the everyday truth; sexuality within Mormon marriage; how the pressure to find a husband shapes young women's actions and sense of self; and the ways Mormon belief and culture can influence second marriages and same-sex unions. The result is an unflinching look at the earthly realities of an institution central to Mormon life.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Part I. For Better or for Worse
- pp. 19-20
- Make It Up Every Day
- pp. 30-36
- The Language of Marriage
- pp. 37-41
- The World We Share
- pp. 42-46
- Leave the Rest to Fairy Tales
- pp. 47-56
- I Am Never Without It
- pp. 57-61
- Long, Tall, Square Peg
- pp. 62-68
- This Great Happiness
- pp. 69-78
- Dinner and a Movie
- pp. 95-99
- The Law of the Harvest
- pp. 104-110
- Mormon Marriage Surprise
- pp. 111-118
- Dreams Denied
- pp. 119-124
- Part III. Divorce and Other Endings
- pp. 125-126
- Departures
- pp. 133-134
- I Do . . . to You and You and You
- pp. 135-141
- My Next Scene
- pp. 149-155
- Acquiescence
- pp. 156-162
- The Last Valentine’s Day
- pp. 173-183
- Part IV. Second Chances
- pp. 187-188
- Best Friends
- pp. 189-193
- Becoming a Couple
- pp. 194-199
- Its Own Reward
- pp. 200-207
- Sacrifice and Sacrament: A Mormon Marriage
- pp. 208-215
- Saying Yes
- pp. 227-230
- Across Racial and Cultural Divides
- pp. 231-234
- The Shared Table
- pp. 235-240
- The Marriage Pact
- pp. 241-247
- A Breath I Held Too Long
- pp. 248-255
- Lucky Despite Myself
- pp. 256-260
- Thirty-Three Reasons Why: A Partial List
- pp. 261-262
- Bibliography
- pp. 267-270
- Contributors
- pp. 271-274
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252098598
Related ISBN(s)
9780252040344, 9780252081781
MARC Record
OCLC
933211569
Pages
296
Launched on MUSE
2016-12-06
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2016