Mormon Studies Review
Article Title
Keywords
Mormon women, early mormonism
Abstract
In At the Pulpit—an annotated collection of fifty-four discourses given by Mormon women between 1831 and 2016—editors Jennifer Reeder and Kate Holbrook clearly achieve their stated goal of “representing the varied ways that Mormon women have addressed public audiences” (p. xxvii). The earliest speeches included in this book were delivered in the American Midwest until the mid-1840s; after 1852 these addresses were almost entirely given in Utah (exceptions being Liverpool, England, in 1861; Chicago in 1893; Washington, DC, in 1895; and Mexico City in 1972). The fact that speakers came from places like New Zealand and South Africa, for example, reflects the geographic expansion of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Indeed, in 1996 Chieko N. Ozaki stated that more Mormons lived abroad than in the United States (p. 256).
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Palmer, Beverly W.
(2018)
"Review of At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women, edited by Jennifer Reeder and Kate Holbrook.,"
Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 5:
No.
1, Article 12.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18809/msr.2018.0118
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol5/iss1/12