Item #7811 Pedestals & Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority & Equal Rights. Martha Sontag Bradley.

Pedestals & Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority & Equal Rights

Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2005. Advance Reading Copy. 595pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Fine. Item #7811

Well written and researched work that contrasts the eras of the suffragist movement in Utah of the early 20th century and the anti-ERA movement of Utah of the later 20th century. "Early Utah leaders such as Relief Society President Emmeline B. Wells walked hand-in-hand with Anthony and other controversial reformers. However, by the 1970s, Mormons had undergone a significant ideological turn to the mainstream, championing women’s unique roles in home and church, and joined other conservatives in defeating the Equal Rights Amendment. In contrast to the enthusiastic partnership of Mormon women and suffragists of an earlier era, fourteen thousand women, the majority of them obedient, determined LDS foot soldiers responding to a call from their Relief Society leaders, attended the 1977 Utah International Women’s Year Conference in Salt Lake City. Their intent was to commandeer the proceedings if necessary to defeat the pro-ERA agenda of the National Commission on the International Women’s Year. Ironically, the conference organizers were mostly LDS women, who were nevertheless branded by their sisters as feminists." -from the publisher.

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