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Further Reading
Our Favorites about Utah Women’s Voting Rights:
- Champions of Change: 25 Women Who Made History, Naomi Watkins and Katherine Kitterman, illustrated by Brooke Smart, 2019.
- Thinking Women: A Timeline of Suffrage in Utah, Katherine Kitterman and Rebekah Clark, 2019.
- Pioneering the Vote: The Untold Story of Suffragists in Utah and the West, Neylan McBaine, 2020.
- The Suffragist Senator: Martha Hughes Cannon, What’shername podcast episode, 2021.
- Zion’s Suffragists podcast with Dianna Douglas, 2020.
- “Women’s Suffrage: How the West Led the Way—StoryMap by the Utah Division of State History.
- Utah Historical Quarterly special issue on suffrage, Fall 2020
- “First to Vote, Commemorating Utah’s Suffragists,” Katherine Kitterman.
- “The Echo of Equal Suffrage: Utah’s Rural Suffrage Movement, 1889-1896,” Tiffany Greene.
- “The Fire of Civic Endeavor: Utah Suffrage After Statehood, 1896-1920,” Rebekah Ryan Clark.
- Battle for the Ballot: Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, ed. Carol Cornwall Madsen, 1997.
More on Utah Women’s Voting Rights:
- Alice Merrill Horne podcast episode with Rebekah Ryan Clark, 2019.
- Speak Your Piece episode on Utah suffrage history—Utah Department of Heritage & Arts, 2020.
- An Advocate for Women: The Public Life of Emmeline B Wells, 1870-1920, Carol Cornwall Madsen, 2005.
- Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History, Carol Cornwall Madsen, 2017.
- Sister-Wives and Suffragists: Polygamy and the Politics of Woman Suffrage, 1870-1896, Lola Van Wagenen, 2012.
- “Mormon Women, Suffrage and Citizenship at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair,” Andrea Radke-Moss, in Gendering the Fair: Histories of Women and Gender at World’s Fairs, 2010.
- “”The Liberty of Self-Degradation”: Polygamy, Woman Suffrage, and Consent in Nineteenth-Century America,” Sarah Barringer Gordon, The Journal of American History, 1996.
- Building Democracy: The Story of Legislatures, Episode 4—NCSL podcast featuring Utah.
- Utah Historical Quarterly, Winter 1991:
- “A Fresh Perspective: The Woman Suffrage Associations of Beaver and Farmington, Utah,” Lisa Bryner Bohman.
- “A Feminist Among the Mormons: Charlotte Ives Cobb Godbe Kirby,” Beverly Beeton.
- “Woman Suffrage, Popular Art, and Utah,” Gary L. Bunker and Carol B. Bunker.
- “The Woman’s Exponent: Forty-two Years of Speaking for Women,” Sherilyn Cox Bennion, Utah Historical Quarterly, 1976.
- “Women’s Place is in the Constitution,” Jean Bickmore White, Utah Historical Quarterly, 1974.
U.S. Women’s Voting Rights—Websites and Podcasts:
- On Their Shoulders: The Radical Stories of Women’s Fight for the Vote, Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission and National Park Service.
- “And Nothing Less” Podcast, with Rosario Dawson and Retta—WSCC and NPS. A great listen that engages with all the twists and turns of suffrage history.
- “The Magic Sash” Podcast, with Aly Raisman—join two 5th graders who travel back in time to experience big moments in women’s suffrage. For kids.
- Suffrage School: Lessons from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library of Women’s Fight for Full Citizenship.
- Crusade for the Vote—National Women’s History Museum.
- Her Hat Was in the Ring. U.S. women who ran for political office before 1920.
U.S. Women’s Voting Rights—Books
- Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All, Martha S. Jones, 2020.
- Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement, Cathleen D. Cahill, 2020.
- Picturing Political Power: images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Allison K. Lange, 2020.
- Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women who Fought for the Right to Vote, Susan Ware, 2019.
- The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, Elaine Weiss, 2018.
- The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898, Lisa Tetrault, 2014.
- Native Vote: American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote, Daniel McCool, Susan M. Olson, and Jennifer Robinson, 2007.
- How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, Rebecca J. Mead, 2004.
More Utah Women’s History:
- The Storyteller: Mae Timbimboo Parry, What’shername podcast episode.
- The Girl of Iron: Mary Peterson Ipsen, What’shername podcast episode.
- The Ambulance Driver: Maud Fitch, What’shername podcast episode.
- Women in Utah History: Paradigm or Paradox? Patricia Scott and Linda Thatcher, 2005.
- Pedestals and Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights, Martha Bradley, 2005.
- The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History, Jill Mulvary Derr, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, and Matthew J. Grow, eds., 2016.
- A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 2017.
- Worth Their Salt: Notable but Often Unnoted Women of Utah, ed. Colleen Whitley, 1996.
- Worth Their Salt, Too: More Notable but Often Unnoted Women of Utah, ed. Colleen Whitley, 2000.
Special Utah Historical Quarterly Issues on Utah Women’s History
- Utah Historical Quarterly 38, no. 1 (Winter 1970): special issue, “Women in Utah”—
- Leonard J. Arrington, “Women as a Force in the History of Utah”
- T.A. Larson, “Woman Suffrage In Western America”
- Thomas G. Alexander, “An Experiment In Progressive Legislation: The Granting of Woman Suffrage In Utah In 1870”
- Jean Bickmore White, “Gentle Persuaders Utah’s First Women Legislators”
- Helen Z. Papanikolas, “Magerou: The Greek Midwife”
- Mary W. Howard, “An Example of Women in Politics”
- Raye Price, “Utah’s Leading Ladies of the Arts”
- Utah Historical Quarterly 46, no. 2 (Spring 1978): special issue, “Views of Utah Women”
- Beverly Beeton, “Woman Suffrage in Territorial Utah”
- Miriam B. Murphy, “The Working Women of Salt Lake City: A Review of the Utah Gazetteer, 1892-93”
- Laurence P. Laurence and Sandra C. Taylor, “’Strong Minded Women’: Desdemona Stott Beeson and Other Hard Rock Mining Entrepreneurs”
- Juanita Brooks and Janet B Butler, eds., “Utah’s Peace Advocate, the ‘Mormona’: Elise Furer Musser”
- Fae Decker Dix, ed., “The Josephine Diaries: Glimpses of the Life of Josephine Streeper Chase, 1881-94”
- Davis Bitton and Gary L. Bunker, “Double Jeopardy: Visual Images of Mormon Women to 1914”
- Utah Historical Quarterly 49, no. 3 (Summer 1981): special issue, “Women: Dreams and Realities”
- John R. Sillito, “Women and the Socialist Party in Utah, 1900-1920”
- Linda Thatcher, “’I Care Nothing for Politics’: Ruth May Fox, Forgotten Suffragist”
- Carol Ann Lubomudrov, “State School Superintendent: Whatever Happened to Mrs. McVicker?”
- Susan Staker Oman, “Nurturing LDS Primaries: Louie Felt and May Anderson”
- Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, “Women’s Work on the Mormon Frontier”
- Sherilyn Cox Bennion, “Enterprising Ladies: Utah’s Nineteenth-century Women Editors”
- Utah Historical Quarterly 59, no. 1 (Winter 1991): issue mostly focused on woman suffrage
- Lisa Bryner Bohman, “A Fresh Perspective: The Woman Suffrage Associations of Beaver and Farmington, Utah”
- Beverly Beeton, “A Feminist Among the Mormons: Charlotte Ives Cobb Godbe Kirby”
- Gary L. Bunker and Carol B. Bunker, “Woman Suffrage, Popular Art, and Utah”
Additional UHQ articles
- “The Story of the Salt Lake City Minute Women,” Katie Clark Blakesley.
- “Utah 4-H, 1940–1960,” Holly Buck.
- “Women Inventors in Utah Territory,” Christine Cooper-Rompato.
- “Polygamy and the Frontier: Mormon Women in Early Utah,” Lawrence Foster.
- “An Ogden Cottage Industry Goes Global,” Audrey M. Godfrey.
- “The National Women’s Relief Society and the U.S. Sheppard-Towner Act,” Loretta Hefner.
- “The Emerging Social Worker and the Distribution of the Castle Gate Relief Society Fund,” Michael Katsanaves Jr.
- “The Chocolate Dippers’ Strike of 1910,” Kathryn MacKay.
- “’Sisters at the Bar’: Utah Women in Law,” Carol Cornwall Madsen.
- “Women in the Utah Workforce from Statehood to World War II,” Miriam B. Murphy.
- “Food, Comfort, and a Bit of Home: Maude Porter and the Ogden Canteen,” Lorrie Rands.
- “Homemakers in Transition: Women in Salt Lake City Apartments, 1910-1940,” Roger Roper.
- “Women and the Kindergarten Movement in Utah,” Andrea Ventilla.
- “From Housework to Office Clerk: Utah’s Working Women, 1870–1900,” Michael Vinson.