Women in Utah history : : paradigm or paradox? / / edited by Patricia Lyn Scott and Linda Thatcher ; Susan Allred Whetstone, photograph editor.

A project of the Utah Women's History Association and cosponsored by the Utah State Historical Society, Paradigm or Paradox provides the first thorough survey of the complicated history of all Utah women. Some of the finest historians studying Utah examine the spectrum of significant social and...

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Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (457 p.)
Notes:"A project of the Utah Women's History Association cosponsored by the Utah State Historical Society."
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Table of Contents:
  • Polygamous and monogamous Mormon women : a comparison / Jessie L. Embry and Lois Kelley
  • Innovation and accommodation : the legal status of women in territorial Utah, 1850-1896 / Lisa Madsen Pearson and Carol Cornwall Madsen
  • Conflict and contributions : women in churches, 1847-1920 / John Sillito
  • Ethnic women, 1900-1940 / Helen Z. Papanikolas
  • Professionalization of farm women, 1890-1940 / Cynthia Sturgis
  • Gainfully employed women, 1896-1950 / Miriam B. Murphy
  • From schoolmarm to state superintendent : the changing role of women in education, 1847-2004 / Mary R. Clark and Patricia Lyn Scott
  • Scholarship, service, and sisterhood : women's clubs and associations, 1877-1977 / Jill Mulvay Derr
  • Women of letters : a unique literary tradition / Gary Topping
  • Women in the arts : evolving roles and diverse expressions / Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans
  • Women in politics : power in the public sphere / Kathryn L. MacKay
  • Women's life cycles, 1850-1940 / Jessie L. Embry.