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description: A look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit drive and determination revealed 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 reconstructed these textured complex lives to give us a 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.
language: English
title: A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
publisher: HighBridge Audio