Truth in fiction . . . the women in plural marriage

[sartorias]

TV, memoirs, powerless women with agency, marriage and doctrine.

Comments

[queenoftheskies]

I'm going to go hunting up books and researching. You've made me want to know more.`

[sartorias]

Hope you find it as fascinating as I did!

[_profiterole_]

Interesting! I've never watched Big Love because it's polygyny, which is a very specific situation, and I'm way more interested in polyamory. The only polyamory I've seen on US TV was in Caprica. It's a little easier (but not much) to find in literature, with The Inheritance Trilogy by NK Jemisin for example.

[sartorias]

Yeah--some of us have polyamorous situations in our stories. I, too, haven't seen it on TV (well-handled, anyway)

[zeborahnz]

Not TV, but the movie Bandits covers the formation of a poly relationship.

...And yeah, that's all I got...

[_profiterole_]

I haven't seen that one, but in terms of movies, there's Savages which has very good, not-full-of-angst polyamory. It's violent, though.

[seajules]

Interesting. I get so fed up with ignorant assertions about polygamy and Mormons that I tend to avoid the subject in media, but those books you mentioned look interesting. I may have to check them out. Not the TV, though, because I just can't even.

[sartorias]

I found these women really interesting. (In both!)

[anna_wing]

Does this sort of thing still happen in the US?

[sartorias]

What sort of thing? If you mean plural marriage, yes, there are enclaves all over Utah. And I gather in some other remote areas as well.