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In this chapter, I provide an overview of the research that provided the foundation for this book and describe the methodological procedures that guided my exploration of readiness for higher education for women who have left Mormon fundamentalist polygamy. I discuss feminist standpoint theory as the theoretical framework that informed this study, life history data collection, and analysis methods; introduce the woman participants whose experiences I explored in this book; review prior research on readiness for higher education; discuss the limitations of the study; and provide an overview of each chapter of the book.

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    Polygyny is the term that specifically denotes plurality of wives and a singular husband. Polygamy refers to man or woman marriage (Van Waggoner, 1989). For the purposes of this chapter, I use polygamy to denote the Mormon Fundamentalist principle of plural marriage as it is practiced with one husband and multiple wives.

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Parson, L. (2019). Introduction. In: Polygamy, Women, and Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02798-8_1

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