Word: ulriches
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...Ulrich, who joined the Harvard Faculty this fall as Phillips Professor of Early American History and Professor of Women's Studies, points out that in 1870 Utah women--the majority of whom were Mormon--became the first American women to vote...
Granting women the vote was an official part of the church doctrine during the mid-1800s, says Ulrich, who is currently teaching Women's Studies 10a: "Roots of Modern Feminism...
...Ulrich acknowledges, "In general, [as a feminist] I'm a minority within a minority...
...that isn't always easy. Twenty years ago, Ulrich was one of a group of Mormon women who founded a feminist newspaper, Explorer II. Church leaders did not enthusiastically accept the journal, she adds...
...Mormon community is just much more liberal in the Northeast," Ulrich says. "I'm really not so strange here...