Author: Metta Victoria Fuller VictorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latter Day Saint women
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Lives of Female Mormons
Author: Metta Victoria Fuller VictorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latter Day Saint women
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author: Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author: Nicolas TrübnerBibliotheca Americana
Author: Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets Relaing to America ...
Author: Clarke, Robert, & Co., Cincinnati, O.Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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The Antipolygamy Controversy in U.S. Women's Movements, 1880-1925
Author: Joan Smyth IversenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135594589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This first study of the antipolygamy movement in the United States traces its growth from a Utah-based women's group into a national crusade where it sparked a debate in suffrage politics. The author analyzes this debate, highlighting the differing views of marriage, family, and the role of women held by suffrage leaders, Mormon women, and antipolygamy reformers. Antipolygamy rhetoric masked a more significant debate within women's groups about the structure and meaning of the American family. Coming in the post-Civil War period, the antipolygamy agenda reflects an attempt to re-construct the Republican family, diminish patriarchal authority, and improve the status of women. The reaction of the antipolygamy women was also more than a struggle for power. Their adherence to the Republican family was a discourse involving not just rhetoric, but a whole range of cultural forms and institutions which provided women with status, moral authority, and an identity. Often the fear of polygamy was mingled with anxiety over the increase in divorce and the emergence of the new woman. Ironically, by the end of the long congressional battle over Utah and the Mormons, both the rhetoric of polygamy and antipolygamy were used against the women's movement.
Bibliotheca Americana, 1883
Author: Robert Clarke & CoPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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Audacious Women
Author: Rebecca BartholomewPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Victorians loved to hear stories about the secret lives of Mormon women. Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Joaquin Miller, A. Conan Doyle, and others fed the public's curiosity with tale after tale. Naive Manchester shopgirls seduced by lecherous missionaries, illiterate Liverpudlian fishwives shanghaied into domestic slavery in Utah -- these were the stories that shaped public opinion. What was the truth behind such stereotypes? In fact, most female immigrants to Utah were former shopgirls, factory workers, and home pieceworkers in London and Manchester, and many were illiterate. Were they naive adventuresses? Rebecca Bartholomew fleshes out real-life profiles of these pioneering women through available letters, diaries, and public documents. They were by-and-large devout and most approached their uncertain future with eyes wide open. At minimum, they were vaguely aware of what their religious commitment entailed. If they did not fulfill Victorian fantasies of young concubines who had been abducted into desert harems, what about the romanticized icons of Mormon inspirational literature? Bartholomew: "These women made mistakes. But if they were not angels, neither were they fools. They are likable. Their lives had meaning. They demonstrated that virtue has unlikely habitats and could even sprout in (Utah)."
A Mormon Bibliography, 1830-1930: N-Z
Author: Chad J. FlakePublisher:
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Category : Latter Day Saint churches
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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