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From her days of feeling like "a root beer among the Cokes"--Coca-Cola being a forbidden fruit for Mormon girls like her--Joanna Brooks always understood that being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints set her apart from others. But, in her eyes, that made her special; the devout LDS home she grew up in was filled with love, spirituality, and an emphasis on service. With Marie...

Joanna Brooks's ancestors were among the earliest waves of emigrants to leave England for North America. They lived hardscrabble lives for generations, eking out subsistence in one place after another as they moved forever westward in search of a new life. Why, Brooks wondered, did her people and countless other poor English subjects abandon their homeland to settle for such unremitting hardship? The question leads her on a journey into a largely obscured dimension of American history.

With her family's background as a point of departure, Brooks brings to light the harsh...

No issue in Mormonism has made more headlines than the faith's distinctive approach to sex and gender. From its polygamous nineteenth-century past to its twentieth-century stand against the Equal Rights Amendment and its twenty-first-century fight against same-sex marriage, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) has...

With practical guidance regarding technique, this book provides you with top tips from real-world case studies and shares achievable checklists and interview plans to help you get the data you want from your interviews.

Whether you are doing interviews in your own research or just using other researchers' data, this book tells you everything you need to know about designing, planning, conducting and analyzing quality interviews, and explains how to:

• Construct ethical research designs
• Record and manage data
• Transcribe notes
• Analyse findings...