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Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the feminist Mormon Housewives podcast.

I'm your host, Lindsay, bringing you another episode in the Year of Polygamy series for the Feminist Mormon Housewives podcast, where we try to untangle the messy practice that is Mormon plural marriage.

If this is your first time tuning in,

go back to episode one on your polygamy. This series is meant to go in order, and I would

highly recommend it. I've heard stories of people just kind of starting in the middle,

which is great. I'm happy to have you, but if you really want to understand and contextualize

what we're going to be talking about, it's really helpful if you

start at the beginning. So today we're talking about the development and the doctrine of the family,

and I want you to kind of understand and contextualize how family rhetoric in the church kind of evolves

from this practice. It's heavily influenced. And I'm going to be pulling a lot from

a church historian Richard Van Wagner's book, Mormon polygamy, especially the chapter on Mormon

women. So I would highly recommend that you buy that. That book is a great, sort of concise

book doing what we are doing on this series that goes through the practice of Mormon polygamy.

Church historian Leonard Arrington says in his book, The Mormon Experience, that like other Americans and Western Europeans,

19th century Mormons believed in romantic love. He says, quote, if there was any important difference in Mormon romantic love,

it was in the religious context.

At least the devout were anxious to find partners

who were equally committed to the restored gospel.

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