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A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

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A stunning and sure to be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen 19th-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 within the state of Utah used to be given to them by a Mormon-dominated legislature as an outgrowth of polygamy in 1870, 50 years ahead of the vote nationally ratified by Congress, and who turned into political actors regardless of, or as a result of, their marital arrangements. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, writing of this small group of Mormon women who’ve in the past been seen as mere names and dates, has brilliantly reconstructed these textured, complex lives to gives us a fulsome portrait of who these women were and in their “sex radicalism” – the concept a woman must make a selection when and with whom to bear children.

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