Polygamy

Polygamy (from Late Greek πολυγαμία, polygamía, “state of marriage to many spouses”) is the practice of marrying multiple spouses. When a man is married to more than one wife at a time, sociologists call this polygyny. When a woman is married to more than one husband at a time, it is called polyandry. If a marriage includes multiple husbands and wives, it can be called a group marriage.

See also Polyamory for non-fiction and Polyamorous for fiction.
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The 19th Wife
Escape
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
The Chosen One
Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife
His Favorite Wife: Trapped in Polygamy
The Lonely Polygamist
The Sound of Gravel
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice
Triumph: Life After the Cult--A Survivor's Lessons
Church of Lies
Love Times Three: Our True Story of a Polygamous Marriage
No Man Knows My History by Fawn M. BrodieWho Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? by Wayne L. CowdreyStanding For Something More by Lyndon LambornOut of Mormonism by Judy RobertsonSecret Ceremonies by Deborah Laake
Ex-MORmON
45 books — 23 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantSo Long a Letter by Mariama BâA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniOutlander by Diana Gabaldon
Polygamy in Fiction
118 books — 17 voters

The 19th Wife by David EbershoffThe Chosen One by Carol Lynch WilliamsKeep Sweet by Michele Domínguez GreeneSister Wife by Shelley HrdlitschkaHidden Wives by Claire Avery
Polygamist Cults
25 books — 71 voters
Fimbulwinter by E. William BrownGood Intentions by Elliott KayWild Wastes by Randi DarrenSuper Sales on Super Heroes by William D. ArandNatural Consequences by Elliott Kay
Harem or polygamy fiction
410 books — 265 voters

Vampire Academy by Richelle MeadPunk 57 by Penelope DouglasHannaford Prep by J. BreeKings of Anarchy by Caroline PeckhamTo The End by J. Bree
Academy Romance
157 books — 44 voters
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon KrakauerStolen Innocence by Elissa WallEscape by Carolyn JessopThe Witness Wore Red by Rebecca MusserThe 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
Fundamentalist Mormons (FLDS)
36 books — 18 voters


Milan Kundera
Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Our playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around us! As we become liberated from our fears, we are free to experience life as it is meant to be! If we are to be free from oppression and control, we must take charge of our own lives and in our magnificence, stand up and speak our truth. In our doing, we let our light shine... (Stella: She was kicked out of the Religion because she objected to her 16 Year old daughter be ...more
Jenny Jessop Larson, From Brainwash to Hogwash: Escaping and Exposing Polygamy

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