Mormonism may be a faith with men in the top tiers, but without the earnest involvement of women, especially during the dicey days of polygamy, it would have collapsed.
"Latter-day Saint women built the church that claimed their loyalty. They sustained its missionary system, testified to its truths, and enhanced its joyful performative and playful elements," Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich writes in the final chapter of her new book, due out Tuesday. "Mormon women blessed and healed one another in leaking log cabins ... cried over unmarked graves left on plains and prairies and ... gave birth to the children who sustained the kingdom."
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