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Battle For the Ballot: Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896

Carol Cornwall Madsen (Editor), Kathryn L. MacKay (Foreword), Logan, Utah: Utah State University, 1997, 6x9" softbound, 320 pages.

Utah was one of the first places to grant women the right to vote, and in 1870 was one of only two territories or states where women could vote on equal terms with men. Moreover, Utah led the way on woman suffrage twice: as a territory in 1870 and as a new state in 1896. The history of woman suffrage was a complicated one that involved the struggle for statehood, polygamy and federal atempts to stamp it out, Mormons and Godbeites, national suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and local leaders such as Emmeline B.Wells and Martha Hughes Cannon. Rather than try to tell this intricate story from just one perspective, Carol Cornwall Madsen has collected from a variety of sources the best current scholarship and writing on the topic. Together, these essays provide a complete history of woman suffrage in Utah.

Table of Contents

Forward - Kathryn L. MacKay

Introduction - Carol Cornwall Madsen

1. The History of Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1900

   Emmeline B. Wells



2. The History of Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1900-1920

   Susa Young Gates



3. In Their Own Behalf: The Politicization of Mormon Women and the 1870Franchise

   Lola Van Wagenen



4. Eliza R. Snow and the Woman Question

   Jill Mulvay Derr



5. The Latter-day Saints and Women's Rights, 1870-1920: A Brief Survey

   Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Carol Cornwall Madsen, and Jill Mulvay Derr



6. An Experiment in Progressive Legislation: The Granting of Woman Suffrage in Utah
   in 1870

   Thomas G. Alexander



7. Woman Suffrage in Territorial Utah

   Beverly Beeton



8. The Mormon-Suffrage Relationship: Personal and Political Quandries

   Joan Iversen



9. The Mormon-Suffrage Relationship: Personal and Political Quandries

   Joan Iversen



10. The New Northwest and Woman's Exponent: Early Voices for
    Suffrage

    Sherilyn Cox Bennion



11. Woman Suffrage, Popular Art, and Utah

    Gary L. Bunker and Carol B. Bunker



12. A Fresh Perspective: The Woman Suffrage Association of Beaver and Farmington,
    Utah

    Lisa Bryner Bohman



13. Woman's Place Is in the Constitution: The Struggle for Equal Rights in Utah in
    1895

    Jean Bickmore White



14. Schism in the Sisterhood: Mormon Women and Partisan Politics, 1890-1900

    Carol Cornwall Madsen



15. "I Care Nothing for Politics": Ruth May Fox, Forgotten Suffragist

    Edited by Linda Thatcher



16. Gentle Persuaders: Utah's First Women Legislators

    Jean Bickmore White

Title: Battle For the Ballot: Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896

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