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008			180112t20182018nyu b 001 0 eng c
010			_a2018001321
020			_a9780190221317 _qhardcover : alk. paper
020			_a0190221313 _qhardcover : alk. paper
040			_aUPB/DLC _beng _erda _cUPB _dSKYRV _dMiTN
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050	0	0	_aBX8643 .W66 _bM333 2018
100	1		_aMcDannell, Colleen,
245	1	0	_aSister saints : _bMormon women since the end of polygamy / _cColleen McDannell.
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c[2018]
264		1	_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c[2018]
264		4	_c©2018.
300			_a312 pages ; _c17 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aBuilding Zion -- Polygamy's end -- Uplifting humanity -- Edged out -- A style of our own -- Not all alike -- Bullying the saints -- A church of converts -- Equal partners -- Internet Mormons.
520			_aThe specter of polygamy haunts Mormonism. More than a century after the practice was banned, it casts a long shadow that obscures people's perceptions of the lives of today's Latter-day Saint women. Many still see them as second-class citizens, oppressed by the church and their husbands, and forced to stay home and take care of their many children. Sister Saints offers a history of modern Mormon women that takes aim at these stereotypes, showing that their stories are much more complex than previously thought. Women in the Utah territory received the right to vote in 1870-fifty years before the nineteenth amendment-only to have it taken away by the same federal legislation that forced the end of polygamy. Progressive and politically active, Mormon women had a profound impact on public life in the first few decades of the twentieth century. They then turned inward, creating a domestic ideal that shaped Mormon culture for generations. The women's movement of the 1970s sparked a new, vigorous-and hotly contested-Mormon feminism that divided Latter-day Saint women. By the twenty-first century more than half of all Mormons lived outside the United States, and what had once been a small community of pioneer women had grown into a diverse global sisterhood. The author argues that we are on the verge of an era in which women are likely to play a greater role in the Mormon church. Well-educated, outspoken, and deeply committed to their faith, these women are defying labels like liberal and conservative, traditional and modern. This deeply researched and eye-opening book ranges over more than a century of history to tell the stories of extraordinary-and ordinary-Latter-day Saint women with empathy and narrative flair.
650		0	_aMormon women _xHistory.
999			_c236974 _d236974