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Holly Welker - Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage - 9780252081781 - V9780252081781
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Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage

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Description for Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage Paperback. Editor(s): Welker, Holly. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGX; BK; HRCC9; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 15. Weight in Grams: 499.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252081781
SKU
V9780252081781
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Holly Welker
Holly Welker is an award-winning poet and essayist living in Arizona. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Best American Essays, and other publications.

Reviews for Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage
Honorable Mention in Creative Non-Fiction, Association for Mormon Letters, 2017 "Reading this collection of intimate, intelligent, and terribly interesting essays is an exercise in empathy that truly ought to be considered required reading to the 21st century Latter-day Saint seeking to truly mourn with those that mourn, and comfort those that stand in need of comfort. Baring Witness ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage


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