Mormon Women in the History of Second-Wave Feminism

Abstract

Ulrich takes a look at the emergence of Mormon women in the history of second-wave feminism. Mormon women became feminists as new ideas, filtered through a wide range of personal associations, helped them make sense of their lives. Discovering history, they also discovered themselves. Their story is a reminder that second-wave feminism was not one thing but many. It was not a self-consistent ideology but a movement--a tremor in the earth, a lift in the wind, a swelling tide.