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A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 Hardback - 2017

by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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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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  • Title A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
  • Author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition, F
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York
  • Publication date 2017-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780307594907 / 0307594904
  • Weight 1.95 lbs (0.88 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.6 x 1.7 in (24.13 x 16.76 x 4.32 cm)
  • Category Religion - Mormon / LDS
  • Library of Congress subjects Mormon Church - History - Sources, Families - Religious life
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016008859
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH was born in Sugar City, Idaho. She holds degrees from the University of New Hampshire, University of Utah, and Simmons College. She is 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University and past president of the American Historical Association. As a MacArthur Fellow, Ulrich worked on the PBS documentary based on A Midwife's Tale. Her work is also featured on an award-winning website called dohistory.org. She is immediate past president of the Mormon History Association. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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