More than petticoats.
By: Christy Karras.
Publisher: TwoDot
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780762749010
Subjects: Women -- Utah -- Biography; Women pioneers -- Utah -- Biography; Women -- Utah -- History; Utah -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Other titles: Remarkable Utah women
Description: Tells the stories of twelve strong and determined women who broke through the social, cultural, or political barriers of the day. The women in these pages include Emmeline B. Wells (1828-1921), president of the Mormon women's Relief Society, editor of Exponent, and president of the Woman Suffrage Association of Utah; and Reva Beck Bosone (1895-1983), Utah Congresswoman and the state's first female judge, who voted against the formation of the CIA and was smeared in the anti-communism crusade of 1950s.
Table of contents: title: Patty Sessions, pioneer midwife; title: Eliza R. Snow, poet and priestess; title: Jane Manning James, advocate for equality; title: Emmeline B. Wells, journalist and activist; title: Cornelia Paddock, author and crusader; title: Ann Eliza Webb Young, wife no. 19; title: Dora B. Topham ("Belle London"), enterprising madam; title: Martha Hughes Cannon, doctor and political leader; title: Susanna Bransford Emery Holmes Delitch Engalitcheff, Utah's silver queen; title: Maude Adams, the original Peter Pan; title: Josie and Ann Bassett, Wild West sisters; title: Reva Beck Bosone, lawyer, judge, congresswoman; title: Juanita Brooks, historian who sought the truth.