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English
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Sister-Wives and Suffragists : Polygamy and the Politics of Woman Suffrage, 1870-1896
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New York, NY
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New York University
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169
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Ph.D. diss.
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"This is a study of the relationship between women's rights activists in Utah and national woman suffragists in the nineteenth-century. Following the enfranchisement of Utah's women in 1870, anti-Mormon and anti-polygamy activists inside and outside Utah launched campaigns to annul woman suffrage in the territory. These actions were based in the notion that Utah's women, who were predominately Mormon and many were polygamists, voted as instructed rather than expressing their own convictions; thus Mormon women were accused of sustaining the power of the Mormon church and reinforcing the institution of polygamy. National woman suffragists from both the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association were drawn into the ensuing controversy, During the 1870s the National Association under the leadership of Susan Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton maintained the closest ties to Utah's Mormon polygamist-suffragists. The National's more radical agenda, feminism, and open-door policy meant that Mormon women were welcomed among its ranks. The American Woman Suffrage Association led by Lucy Stone also objected to any efforts to annul woman suffrage in Utah, but as a more conservative association it tried to maintain distance from the controversies raised in Utah. Anti-polygamy activists sought the support of national suffragists, and they worked to replace Mormon women as the representatives of women's rights from Utah. Central to these complicated relations then, was the effort of many national suffragists to support Mormon suffragists while disavowing polygamy. How the issue of polygamy affected the tactics of woman suffragists changed over time as Utah's polygamist women lost the vote in 1882, the rest of Utah's women disfranchised in 1887, and the ballot restored with statehood in 1896. How and why alliances were forged and battlelines drawn, are among the topics this study discusses. This study also brings into focus many lesser known nineteenth-century women right's activists such as Matilda Joslyn Gage, Belva Lockwood, Sara Andrews Spencer; Mormon suffragists, Emmeline Wells, Ellen Ferguson, and Emily Richards; anti-polygamy activists, Cornelia Paddock, Jenny Froiseth, Sarah Cooke, and members of Utah's reform movement including Charlotte, Mary and Annie Godbe and Fanny Stenhouse." [Author's abstract]
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