Episode 42: The Scandal of Soldiers, Wives, and Sex

Year of Polygamy Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, History, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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TW: This podcast contains some discussions of rape. Join Lindsay as she discusses how women’s sexuality became the catalyst for a decade or more of Mormon violence, and the curious Victorian scandal involving Brigham Young’s daughter-in-law and a “Gentile” soldier. […]

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0:00.0	One, two, three, go.
0:09.5	Feminist, Mormon, Housewives.
0:17.0	Feminist.
0:18.8	Mormon.
0:20.5	Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Feminist Mormon Housewives podcast.
0:24.6	I'm your host Lindsay bringing you another episode in the Year of Plygamy series, which is a series where we try to understand the practice of Mormon plural marriage, how it affects us today, how it affects those Mormons in the past,
0:39.7	and what we think about this information. If this is your first time tuning in, I would highly,
0:44.8	highly recommend starting with episode one and working your way through the series. These
0:49.6	series are meant to go in order. They're trying to be as chronological as possible, which is
0:54.0	really hard to do when you're talking about historical narrative. Anyway, are meant to go in order. They're trying to be as chronological as possible, which is really
0:54.3	hard to do when you're talking about historical narrative. Anyway, today's episode is going to be a
0:59.7	short little teaser based on one fantastic essay by William P. McKinnon. And this essay is fantastic.
1:10.7	It was published in the Utah Historical Quarterly.
1:13.0	I'm going to link to it. But it was pointed out to me by the wonderful historian Joe Geisner.
1:18.7	And Joe Geisner is actually coming on in a few days. So the next episode will be up in a few days.
1:23.2	And I cannot wait. We are going to be talking about all the violence in the 1850s, Utah, that sort of came out of, you know, the government tensions and how women were involved.
1:38.3	And spoiler alert, women and polygamy are a huge factor in the violence in 1850s Utah. And we're not just talking
1:45.5	Mountain Meadows Massacre. That's the one that everyone knows. There are many other massacres and
1:51.0	murders that we're going to talk about. I'm really excited. We're going to talk about Bill Hickman a little
1:55.9	bit and the destroying angels and all of those really fun things. I mean, of course, they're
2:01.9	fun now to look on them. They weren't so fun if you were a Mormon in 1850s, Utah. But Joe Geisner,
2:08.4	who was a lovely, lovely man, pointed me to this essay to prepare for our podcast. And as I was
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