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A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
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January 9, 2017
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian looks at the relationship between feminism and polygamy in 19th century …more

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Blair Hodges
Mar 21, 2017 rated it it was amazing
This book is about much more than polygamy and women's rights, although you'll learn much about those things here. A House Full of Females is a compulsively readable cultural history of the first forty years of the Latter-day Saint experience told from the ground up. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich expertly weaves together scraps from diaries, letters, and other day-to-day records created in ink, cloth, memory, and other materials—all of which are used to examine the development of Mormon theology and cu ...more
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More women's history! ...more
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