Women in Utah History

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A project of the Utah Women's History Association and cosponsored by the Utah State Historical Society, Women in Utah History: 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 cultural topics in the state's history that particularly have involved or affected women. The contents are as follows:

• A Comparison of Utah Mormon Polygamous and Monogamous Women: Jessie L. Embry and Lois Kelley
• Innovation and Accommodation: the Legal Status of Women in Territorial Utah, 1847-96: Lisa Madsen Pearson and Carol Cornwall Madsen
• Conflict and Contributions: Women in Utah Churches, 1847-1920: John Sillito
• Utah's Ethnic Women: Helen Z. Papanikolas
• The Professionalization of Utah's Farm Women, 1890-1940: Cynthia Sturgis
• Gainfully Employed Women in Utah: Miriam B. Murphy
• From Schoolmarm to State Superintendent: The Changing Role of Women in Utah Education, 1847-2004: Mary Clark and Patricia Lyn Scott
• Scholarship, Service, and Sisterhood: Utah Women's Clubs and Associations, 1847-1977: Jill Mulvay Derr
• Women of Letters in Utah:Gary Topping
• Utah Women in the Arts: Martha Sontag Bradley-Evans
• Women in Politics: Power in the Public Sphere: Kathryn L. MacKay

• Utah Women's Life Stages: 1850-1940: Jessie L. Embry

The Western Historical Quarterly, Summer 2007, by Susan H. Swetnam