sister-wives

Angela Ellsworth breaks this mold of American feminism by signifying a uniquely American women's homosociety that is simultaneously historical and contemporary--the sister-wives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormon faith that originally embraced polygamy and encultured Ellsorth's ancestors.

G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011

Ellsworth has internationally staged improvisational sister-wife performances with a troupe of actresses wearing the 19th-century prairie dresses and hairstyles of frontier women that still inform the modest dresses and hair favored by some of today's sister-wives.

G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011

The actions are defiant and activist parodies, not significant of the true homosociety of sister-wives.

G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011

Angela Ellsworth breaks this mold of American feminism by signifying a uniquely American women's homosociety that is simultaneously historical and contemporary--the sister-wives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormon faith that originally embraced polygamy and encultured Ellsorth's ancestors.

G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011

Ellsworth has internationally staged improvisational sister-wife performances with a troupe of actresses wearing the 19th-century prairie dresses and hairstyles of frontier women that still inform the modest dresses and hair favored by some of today's sister-wives.

G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011

Such mingling itself is something sister-wives are disinclined to do, but the performers proceed to behave provocatively, indignifying their characters.

G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011

You wrote about the lao tong relationship in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan; you wrote about so-called sister-wives in Peony in Love.

Random House Reader's Circle chats with with Lisa See about Peony in Love 2010

You wrote about the lao tong relationship in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan; you wrote about so-called sister-wives in Peony in Love.

Random House Reader's Circle chats with with Lisa See about Peony in Love 2010

One thing Tripplehorn assures us: She'll be forever linked with her "sister-wives."

Everlasting Love 2011

The actions are defiant and activist parodies, not significant of the true homosociety of sister-wives.

G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011