Dear Maureen,
I was just cleaning out my email account from my former institution
(Carleton U), when I came across this message from you that I had save two
years ago. At the time, the topic was one that I was just beginning to
explore, and I have since written two papers on the subject, both grappling
with alternative feminist perpectives on the subject ('What's Queer about
Polygamy' in Robert Leckey and Kim Brooks, _Queer Theory_ (Routledge 2010);
and 'The Racialization of White Man's Polygamy', forthcoming in the next
edition of Hypatia).
If you ended up working on this subject, I would be grateful to review and
discuss your work and/or to get any leads on material that you have found
particularly interesting on this subject.
My new email address: [log in to unmask] (Sorry, but I just realized that I am
sending this one through my old account).
Margaret Denike
Department of Political Science
Dalhousie University
Room 301 Henry Hicks Building
6299 South Street
Halifax, NS
B3H 4H6 Canada
Phone: (902) 494-2396
Fax: (902) 494-3825
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Maureen Sander-Staudt" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: Citations for the ethics of polygamy
> Thank you all for the kind responses to my call for teaching resources on
> the topics of feminist ethics and polygamy. Several of you have indicated
> that you would be interested in the results, so I have pasted a list of
> sources below. Please feel free to add this list. I am also interested
> in your thoughts about this topic. I have been following the development
> of an underground railroad in Arizona that helps young women escape from
> the polygamous community of Colorado City, but the recent intervention in
> El Dorado, Texas has me conflicted. I question whether polygamy, or more
> specifically polygyny, is inherently wrong from a feminist perspective,
> but am more willing to affirm that the disparity in the ratio of men to
> women is conducive to a host of other more objectionable practices such as
> child marriage, forced marriage, reduced epistemic and social autonomy,
> incest, etc., especially when coupled with the isolation and patriarchal
> epistemic manipulation that charact!
> er!
> izes these particular communities. However, these are problems that can
> arise in non-polygamous marriages, and I struggle to "apprentice" myself
> to the perspective of these women. While authorities would hopefully
> investigate any charge of child rape, the power to take away children is a
> grave one that is often leveraged against "deviant" and vulnerable women.
> Our society is also inconsistent in not as vehemently condemning the
> practice of non-marital polygamous co-habitation, and ignoring the rampant
> level of child abuse, child rape, child porn, child murder, etc. in the so
> called "normal" society. What do the rest of you think about the Texas
> intervention and subsequent return of most of the children? Cheers,
> Maureen
>
>
>
> Esland, David and Nussbaum, Martha. (ed.s) Sex Preference, and Family:
> Essays on
>
> Law and Nature (New York: Oxford University Press) 1997.
>
> Galston, William. Public Matters: Politics, Policy, and Religion in the
> 21st Century.
>
> (Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) 2005.
>
> Joseph, Elizabeth. "My Husband's Nine Wives". NY Times, Op-ed, May 23,
> 1991, A31
>
> -------------"Polygamy Now!" From a speech given at the Utah Chapter of
> National
>
> Organization of Women. Printed in Harper's Magazine. Feb.
> 1998, 26-28.
>
> Solomon, Dorothy Allred. Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk: Growing Up
> in
>
> Polygamy. (New York: WW Norton & Co.) 2003.
>
> Song, Sarah. Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism. (New
> York,
>
> Cambridge University Press) 2007.
>
> Warenski, Mary. Patriarchs and Politics: The Plight of Mormon Women.
> (San
>
> Francisco: McGraw Publishers.
>
> Nancy Rosenblum's "Democratic Sex: Reynolds v. US" in Nussbaum and
> Estlund's _Sex Preference and the Family: Essays on Law and Nature
>
>
>
> Cheshire Calhoun, Who's Afraid of Polygamous Marriage? Lessons for
> Same-Sex Marriage
> Advocacy from the History of Polygamy, 42 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 1023 (2005)
>
>
>
> a segment of NPR's This American Life on polygamy.
>
>
>
> URL: http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=99
>
>
>
> EPISODE 99: I enjoy Being a Girl, Sort Of
>
>
>
>
> Women of Principle: Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny
>
>
> By Janet Bennion
>
>
>
> Corvino, J. "Homosexuality and the PIB Argument."
>
>
>
>
> Maureen Sander-Staudt Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor of Philosophy
> Dept. of Integrative Studies
> Arizona State University
> PO Box 37100 Mail Code 3051
> (602) 543-6507
> fax (602) 543-6004
>
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