Sacred Pens and Public Voices

Name: Sacred Pens and Public Voices
Brand: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
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Latter-day Saint Women in Dialogue with America

By: Lori Motzkus Wilkinson

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Hardcover | 1 December 2026

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192 Pages

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22.9 x 15.2

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In the view of many Latter-day Saint women, the religious restoration propounded by Joseph Smith unleashed forces important to female progress. Lori Motzkus Wilkinson examines how LDS women used their agency and sought women's rights filtered through their religious lens. Though intellectually connected to figures outside the Church, the LDS women saw them less aswomen's rights activists to emulate and more as speakers of truths that, regardless of the origin, should be embraced and harnessed. Wilkinson reveals how Emmeline B. Wells, Susa Young Gates, and other Latter-day Saint women supported and upheld institutional LDS authority and utilized the importance of women's roles in the home and society, as mechanisms for women's advancement. Even as LDS women continued to engage with prominent national thinkers, their writings and lives demonstrated that they connected with the larger sphere of women's rights activism before drawing on the LDS concept of women's divine nature to reshape those ideals to uniquely religious ends. Original and eye-opening, Sacred Pens and Public Voices revises established narratives about how LDS women interacted with and used ideas taken from national women's movements.

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"Sacred Pens and Public Voices offers a compelling recalibration of the place of Mormon women in the nation. Rather than isolation and withdrawal, Lori Motzkus Wilkinson finds Mormon women at the center of connections to nationally prominent women at the forefront of female progress. Readers will delight at Wilkinson's fresh approach, filled with new insights at every turn." --W. Paul Reeve, Simmons Chair of Mormons Studies, University of Utah

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