Strategies of representation, relationship, and resistance: British women travelers and Mormon plural wives, ca. 1870-1890

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 436-462

  Morin, Karen M ^a   Guelke, Jeanne Kay ^b  

^a BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARRIAGE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; POST-COLONIALISM; RELIGION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031759038     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0004-5608.00108     Document Type: Article

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