A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 Contributor(s): Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307742121 ISBN-13: 9780307742124 Publisher: Vintage
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Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (mormon) - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Women's Studies |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" L (1.10 lbs) 528 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Religious Orientation - Christian - Religious Orientation - Mormonism/Lds - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Choice 04/01/2018 |
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Publisher Description: From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History, and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and determination. A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never-before-told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon plural marriage, whose right to vote in the state of Utah was given to them by a Mormon-dominated legislature as an outgrowth of polygamy in 1870, fifty years ahead of the vote nationally ratified by Congress, and who became political actors in spite of, or because of, their marital arrangements. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, writing of this small group of Mormon women who've previously been seen as mere names and dates, has brilliantly reconstructed these textured, complex lives to give us a fulsome portrait of who these women were and of their sex radicalism--the idea that a woman should choose when and with whom to bear children. |
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