4 edition of A house full of women. found in the catalog.
A house full of women.
Helen Upshall
Published
1991
by Piatkus
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Written in
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Pagination | (240)p. |
| Number of Pages | 240 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL17375345M |
| ISBN 10 | 0749900407 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 59245782 |
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Great advice! While my son is only a month old, we’re well on our way to having a house full of boys. Husband, male dog, male cat, and my best friend has three boys of her own who frequent our house. Her oldest is 11, and the youngest of the four is her new born. #3 is already an issue with the two oldest. It is no small task to create a book that summarizes over a century of U.S. history, gives a crash course in civics, and provides succinct, pithy biographies of numerous women who have served in the legislative and judicial branches of government. Cooper pulls it off.
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A House Full of Females is the richest work on the social history of religion in a generation. “The reader who opens A House full of Females is truly privileged to have Laurel Thatcher Ulrich as their guide into the circles of strong women who defended plural marriage before Utah voted to give the vote to women/5(68).
A House Full of Females is a history exploring Mormon polygamy as it unfolded, written by one of our country's foremost historians. Laurel based the book on journals and letters of women (and some men), writings that were recorded as the marriage system developed, with the intent to understand people's true and immediate reactions to it.4/5().
A House Full of Females is sensitive to the difficulty and confusion that accompanied early plural marriage, with its implied loss of status for women. But the book also tells a more complicated tale about women's on-the-ground experiences In the best ways, A House Full of Females remains a work of traditional "women's history," a straightforward exploration of women's 3/5(1).
A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Author), Susan Ericksen (Narrator), HighBridge, a Division of /5(58).
A House Full of Women Hardcover – January 1, by Philip McFarland (Author) See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editionsAuthor: Philip McFarland. A House Full of Women Paperback – November 4, by Joan O'Neill (Author) See all 5 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions.
Price New from Used from Hardcover "Please retry" $ — $ Paperback "Please retry" Author: Joan O'Neill. A House Full of Females NPR coverage of A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
News, author interviews, critics' picks. Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History,etc.), a MacArthur Fellow whose previous subjects have included colonial wives and early American midwives, has a personal investment in this deeply researched, well-informed history of marriage and family life among 19th-century Mormons: her eight great-grandparents and four great-great.
A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never-before-told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage," whose right to vote in the state.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s “A House Full of Females” is the best book written on early Mormonism bar none. If you read one book on the early Saints, then read this one. Ulrich set out to write a book on early Mormon feminism but ended up with one far more rich and nuanced.
At AHA this weekend, Knopf is launching Laurel Ulrich's newest book, A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, I imagine bookstores and Amazon will start selling copies shortly afterward.
Anybody familiar with early American history knows and respects Ulrich's work. Her A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based. A House of Women. Rosie Perk busty barmaid at The Angel weds farmer Tom Jeff who enlists in WW1, leaving jealous spinster sisters, kind brother Tom, deaf Ma, and illegitimate Lily 6.
Pastor Franklin, n pitches in. But drought, flood, hard times and hard hearts threaten/5. Still, women maintained the right to choose their spouses, and could also choose whether to be sealed to them for eternity.
Impeccable scholarship and a fascinating topic suffer somewhat from the. House of Women has one of the most beautiful covers I've seen lately but the story inside has many problems. Not sure if the author is completely at fault or them + the source material (book is a loose adaptation of the film Black Narcissus).
Either way, don't believe the hype surrounding this graphic novel/5(9). The House of Women is a reimagining of the Persephone and Demeter story.
Goodreads readers mostly seemed to hate it. The book itself doesn't mention the myth. I don't think I would have appreciated the book if I hadn't realized it/5.
Thousands of details from forgotten lives of domesticity enrich this first-rate history, writes Deborah D. Rogers A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism,by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Thousands of details from forgotten lives of domesticity enrich this first-rate history, writes Deborah D.
Rogers. The House of Women tells the tale of five generations of women living in one house. The house is run by the domineering great-grandmother Emma, whose decisions have an impact on each of the generations. I was not a fan of this book, and wouldn't recommend it.
To me, it handles the subject of pedophilia terribly/5. Stream A House Full Of Women by lori lieberman from desktop or your mobile device. This approach figures prominently in Ulrich’s latest book, “A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism.
Title: A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Genre: Mormon Women’s History Year Published: Number of Pages: Binding: Hardcover (also Kindle / Audible) ISBN ISBN Price: $.
So A House Full of Daughters joins a long line of publications about an extraordinary family, but it still manages to be original and illuminating. Nicolson focuses on seven generations of women. The House of Women had a lot of drama!
That is one of the things I most enjoyed about this story. With so many sisters, and a snotty father, it was no wonder Grace was rebellious. I really enjoyed this book.
One of the first things that I fell in love with was the time the story took place in, which was in the late s Victoria-Era England/5(23).A House Full of Books There's always room for one more book.
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