36: Learning by Sad Experience: Testimonies of Women Pt 2 | 132 Problems: Revisiting Mormon Polygamy

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Women’s voices matter, and so does understanding their circumstances and their growth over time. If we want to really hear women, we need to look at the differences between their public statements and their private sentiments, and consider what influences and pressures they were facing. We also need to contrast their earlier, less experienced statements with their later statements, made after their beliefs had been shaped by painful experience.

Links:

Phoebe Woodruff:

Admiral Jeremiah Denton blinks T-O-R-T-U-R-E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rufnWLVQcKg

Mary Jane Mount Tanner Autobiography: https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=328146

Emmeline Wells Diaries: https://www.churchhistorianspress.org/emmeline-b-wells?lang=eng

https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=25123436&q=unclean+thing&parent_i=25123432

https://issuu.com/utah10/docs/uhq_volume46_1978_number1/s/129529#:~:text=In%20addition%20to%20the%20normal%20problems%20that%20arise,high%20ratio%20of%20divorce%20among%20Mormon%20polygamists.%20MILLENNIALISM