145:(LDS Church). Ulrich shows that there was a great variety of opinions and feelings about the practice among its participants. She examines how polygamy allowed some women to have successful careers, escape previous marriages, have a place in society, and have a family. Ulrich also shows the confusion, religious sin, and social controversy as a result of instituting the practice. In framing polygamy as both a society structure and a religious practice, Ulrich shows how Mormon women, many of whom were involved in polygamous relationships, became actively involved in political and social causes. Ulrich argues that polygamy empowered women to become political actors, particularly in the
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factually accurate. Reviewer Lowell
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written decades later. I have not done that. Retrospective accounts are valuable, but they have to be understood in relation to the conflicts and commemorations that produced them....This is not to say that diaries are more truthful than memoirs, just better at conveying the instability of events as they unfolded. Diarists did not know how things would turn out.
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Mormons in the nineteenth century who experienced polygamy. While telling the history of the church in the 1800s, Ulrich focuses on how Mormon women responded to polygamy. She also highlights suffrage in
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