1987 PRISONS OF THE MIND First 1st Ed Kaziah Hancock Mormon Polygamy VG HCDJ
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1987 PRISONS OF THE MIND First 1st Ed Kaziah Hancock Mormon Polygamy VG HCDJ. (Kaziah Hancock) She’s known for goats and for soldiers. Written by Kaziah May Hancock and published by Desert Blossom Publishing, West Jordan, Utah. Kaziah grew up rebellious, uncomfortable in the bounds of the patriarchal community. Written by Kaziah May Hancock and published by Desert Blossom Publishing, West Jordan, Utah. Copyright 1987; “First Printing, 1987” is stated on the copyright page. There are some black and white illustrations done by the author. The book starts with some discussion of Mormon doctrine concerning polygamy, then moves into a discussion of Hancock’s life and ends with the trial transcript (with names changed) when her former husband and sister wife tried to take her business away. DESCRIPTION: 515 pages 9 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches first edition hardcover with dustjacket CONDITION: This hard-cover book is in very good+ condition with a very good+ dust jacket. The hardcover—white faux leather covers boards embossed in gold— is clean and shows only slight wear at the corners and spine ends. The interior is excellent with no names, marks, underlining, tears or odor. There is a slight separation of the binding at the title page—it is not exactly cracked, but is a slight glitch. The hinges and binding are otherwise excellent with no loose or missing pages. The dust jacket is complete with price intact on the front flap. It is lightly rubbed at the edges and corners. From artistsofutah.org: (Kaziah Hancock) She’s known for goats and for soldiers. The first she has raised for years on her ranch south of Manti, where she’s been given the nickname The Goat Woman: she bears the moniker proudly, her affection for the animals going back to an almost mythical origin story, her birth on a remote homestead in northern Arizona and the goat milk that kept her alive in that barren desert. The latter she has painted over the past decade, by the hundreds, service men and women who have fallen in foreign wars or succumbed to depression and suicide at home, the paintings given to the grieving families: Project Compassion has garnered Kaziah Hancock praise and attention from across the country, as well as recognition and numerous awards, but as a retrospective of her work now at Spring City reminds us, her artistic interests are varied, from narrative paintings on the struggles of life, to joyous landscapes, inventive portraits and a recent series of paintings celebrating pop icons… Kaziah grew up rebellious, uncomfortable in the bounds of the patriarchal community. But when she was nearly raped and murdered at 15, she cried to God for help and promised to repent. Within her upbringing, that meant “submitting to the brethren.” In 1963, she became the third wife of James Reed Stratton. To avoid being in the bedroom of a man for whom she had no affection or love, and for whom she felt a physical repulsion, she worked up to 16 hours a day. The money would go to support Stratton’s three wives and his children, but it also gave Kaziah a certain amount of autonomy. The detail with which she describes the process of designing and manufacturing the machinery to blow out the dents in old 55-gallon metal barrels so they could be painted and resold, and the success of the place she turned from a small bottle-washing facility to a successful recycling company with a dozen employees, reveals a marked sense of pride in her creative talents and her work ethic. One suspects it’s the same creative force that would fuel her artistic career. Despite the threat of hellfire and damnation, after 16 years as a polygamous wife, Kaziah bolted. “I was already in hell, so what could they threaten me with.” It was neither quick nor easy, but she got a “release,” or divorce, from within her ecclesiastical community, a restraining order against Stratton from the police, and her recycling company from the courts. From the dust jacket description: The powerful story that follows is that of an unscrupulous man using religious compulsion in the extreme to subject and exploit other human beings for his own personal gain. By adding a word where it was convenient and subtracting words so as to give the Holy Scriptures a new meaning, then claiming power and rights, he locked naive victims into a trap. Preach long enough, loud enough, often enough and they will begin to believe it. Control the environment. Do not allow your subjects to have outside communication, then capitalize on their labor. And what do you have? 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