ULRICH: Mormons supported suffrage for women, I think, as a way of calling the bluff of 19th-century antagonists, who claimed that women were subordinated in Mormonism.

George Mason University religious studies professor and author John Turner talked about how the Book of Mormon compares to other religious texts and how early Mormons, under the leadership of ...

Did 19th Century Mormon Polygamy Help Drive The Women's Movement? ... "A House Full Of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism" by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.

In the Piney Woods near Jasper this spring break, 90 suburban teenagers spent four days playing pretend. They pretended they were persecuted Mormons, heading West after a mob had killed their ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich says that for Mormon women living in 19th century Utah, "plural marriages" were empowering in complicated ways.

George Mason University religious studies professor and author John Turner talked about how the Book of Mormon compares to other religious texts and how early ... Mormons in 19th Century America.

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. What was it like to be a Mormon woman in a polygamist marriage in 19th-century America? That's what historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich explores in her new book "A ...