Secret Ceremonies by Deborah Laake

Secret Ceremonies by Deborah Laake

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Deborah Laake believed totally in the Mormon concept of marriage to a predestined partner but her disastrous time with her first husband ended in divorce. She finally gained independence after two more marriages. This is an insight into the Mormon way of life.

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Secret Ceremonies by Deborah Laake

Born and bred in the Mormon faith, Deborah Laake grew up convinced that her only chance of eternal happiness was through marriage to the One - the predestined partner who would guide her through the portals of the Celestial kingdom into the highest level of Mormon heaven. But finding the One proved much more difficult than she had imagined. Misguidedly settling for the diminutive Monty, she endured nine months of repression, sexual dissatifaction, nylon ritual underwear and priggish rigidity in the name of Mormon matrimony before finding the courage to divorce him. But freedom from Monty only brought her into conflict with the church itself, and its enduring obsession with the sexuality of the fallen woman. This is Deborah's story, an indictment of one of the enduring bastions of male privilege, and an affirmation of identity and self-worth.
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ISBN 13 9780751512380
ISBN 10 0751512389
Title Secret Ceremonies
Author Deborah Laake
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Year published 1995-05-04
Number of pages 240
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.