MIPodcast #62—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and "A House Full of Females"
Channel: Maxwell Institute
Date: 2017-04-25

“How could women simultaneously support a national campaign for political and economic rights while defending a marital practice that to most people seemed relentlessly patriarchal?” That’s the question addressed by historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in her latest book, "A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870" (see p. xiii).

But Ulrich’s book is about more than polygamy and women’s rights. It’s a bold new social and cultural history of early Mormonism more broadly, as seen in the earliest and most personal writings of many overlooked figures of Mormon history.

Pulitzer and Bancroft-prize winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich talks about "A House Full of Females" in this episode. 

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