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The groundbreaking book that Harvard professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has called "the most important work to emerge from the Mormon press inthe last fifty years."
This collection of original documentsexplores the fascinating and largely unknown history of the ReliefSociety in the nineteenth century. The story begins with the founding of the Nauvoo Female Relief Society, and the complete and unabridgedminutes of that organization are reproduced in this book for the firsttime in print. The large majority of the volume covers the lesser-knownperiod after the Relief Society was reestablished in territorial Utahand began to spread to areas as remote as Hawaii and England.
Not onlydid Relief Society women care for their families and the poor, theymanufactured and sold goods, went to medical school, gave healingblessings and set apart Relief Society officers, stored grain, builtassembly halls, fought for women's suffrage, founded a hospital,defended the practice of plural marriage, and started the Primary andYoung Women organizations. Prominent in the documents are the toweringfigures of Mormon women's history from this period, including EmmaSmith, Eliza R. Snow, Emmeline B. Wells, Zina D. H. Young, and manyothers.
