Roundtable:A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835–1870

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Research Article| April 01 2020 Roundtable: A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835–1870 Brittany Chapman Nash; Brittany Chapman Nash BRITTANY CHAPMAN NASH is an independent historian specializing in nineteenth-century women’s history. Among other publications, she coedited with Richard E. Turley Jr. the four-volume series Women of Faith in the Latter Days. She is a past research librarian at the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and a member of the Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team (MWHIT), a bridge-building organization dedicated to popularizing the history of Mormon women in print and in person. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Gary James Bergera; Gary James Bergera GARY JAMES BERGERA is the managing director of the Smith-Pettit Foundation and the company director of Signature Books, both of Salt Lake City. He is author/coauthor or editor/coeditor of seven books. Most recently, he edited the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, published in three volumes as Confessions of a Mormon Historian. His publications have received awards from the Mormon History Association, the Utah Historical Society, and the Dialogue Foundation. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Mormon History and the John Whitmer Historical Association Journal. He is the 2018 recipient of the Leonard J. Arrington lifetime achievement award from the Mormon History Association. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Claudia L. Bushman; Claudia L. Bushman CLAUDIA L. BUSHMAN, a scholar of American history, has taught at many universities, most recently Columbia University and Claremont Graduate University. She has written fifteen books about nineteenth-century America—many about Latter-day Saints and women. Her books in Mormon studies include Mormon Sisters: Women in Early Utah, Contemporary Mormonism: Latter-day Saints in Modern America and Mormon Women Have Their Say. She was the founding editor of Exponent II in 1974 and the New York Mother of the Year in 2002. She and Richard Bushman wrote Building the Kingdom of God in America and reared six children together. Claudia and Laurel have known each other for over fifty years, beginning as Boston revolutionaries who helped initiate a second wave of Mormon women’s feminism through their work on Exponent II and beyond. In a sense, House Full of Females is a nod to their past as well. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Christine Talbot; Christine Talbot CHRISTINE TALBOT is associate professor and coordinator of gender studies at the University of Northern Colorado, where she has served for ten years. After receiving a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies, she received her PhD in history emphasizing U.S. women’s and gender history, both from the University of Michigan. She teaches courses in feminist history, feminist and queer theories, intersectionality, and introduction to gender studies. Her book, A Foreign Kingdom: Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852–1890 (2013) examined the national controversy over the Mormon practice of plural marriage. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Laurel Thatcher Ulrich LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and recently retired professor at Harvard University. She was president of the American Historical Association, as well as a recent president of the Mormon History Association. Laurel and her husband, Gael, moved from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and now live in a big stone house near Philadelphia, and Laurel stays very busy with nearby children and grandchildren, consulting at several Philadelphia museums, and with learning to navigate a new city. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Mormon History (2020) 46 (2): 74–95. https://doi.org/10.5406/jmormhist.46.2.0074 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Brittany Chapman Nash, Gary James Bergera, Claudia L. Bushman, Christine Talbot, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich; Roundtable: A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835–1870. Journal of Mormon History 1 April 2020; 46 (2): 74–95. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jmormhist.46.2.0074 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of Mormon History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2020 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2020 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.