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Authors: Katherine Kitterman and Rebekah Ryan Clark
About Product: Emmeline B. Wells, Utah’s premier suffragist, once said: “I believe in women, especially thinking women.” With rich, historical images and an easy-to-follow timeline format, this book honors many of those “thinking” women and men in Utah’s history who have been passionately committed to the political, educational, and professional advancement of women. Follow along through Utah’s suffrage story and see Utah women become the first to vote in 1870, meet a polygamist wife who became the first female state senator in America, and read stories of pioneering women up to 1920 when all women got the right to vote. With each chapter, readers will gain a better understanding of Utah’s rich cultural heritage of women’s advocacy, and they will be inspired to become more engaged participants in their own communities today.
About the Authors: Katherine Kitterman is the Historical Director for Better Days 2020. Katherine has extensive research experience in American women’s history and Mormon history. Katherine earned her BA in international relations and German studies from Brigham Young University and also earned a master of public policy degree at BYU. She is currently a PhD candidate in American History at American University in Washington, DC. Katherine’s dissertation analyzes the rhetoric of Mormon women’s petitions for suffrage in nineteenth-century Utah.
Rebekah Clark holds a law degree from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University and a bachelor’s degree in American History and Literature
from Harvard University, where she wrote her honors thesis on Utah’s participation in the national women’s suffrage movement. She participated in a post- graduate research fellowship on Mormon women in the twentieth century at the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute of Church History. After practicing law for four years in Boston, she worked as a research historian at the Church History Department. She is currently the Historical Research Associate for Better Days 2020.
Pages: 144
Deseret Book
