A Scholar in Zion

Authors

Anthea Butler

Keywords

Sister Saints, Colleen Mcdannell, Mormon women, polygamy, representation

Abstract

When I received my copy of Sister Saints: Mormon Women Since the End of Polygamy, I stared at the cover for a while. Surely Colleen McDannell did not pick this image, I thought, because the cover is reminiscent of what I would consider to be a nineteenth-century version of Mormon womanhood: a young mother playing with her children, looking down upon them lovingly, seemingly free from care. Thankfully, a) the cover was NOT her first choice for the book; and b) the statue is not quite what Sister Saints is all about.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Butler, Anthea (2020) "A Scholar in Zion," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 7: No. 1, Article 9.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol7/iss1/9