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Feminist.

Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Feminist Mormon Housewives podcast.

I'm your host, Lindsay, bringing you another episode in the Year of Polygamy series where we seek to understand and try to sort of

dissect the practice of plural marriage and see how it affects us today. And I couldn't be more

excited because last time I had someone

in the studio, it was Kate Kelly, and I was just telling my guest here today that I have two

amazing women that I can claim that have been here, actually three, because Robin Linkhart has

been here. But I want to introduce historian Barbara Jones Brown. Can you say hello?

Hi. For those of you who don't know who Barbara is,

Barbara holds a master's degree in American history from the University of Utah and a bachelor's

degree from BYU. She specializes in two of Mormon history's most challenging subjects,

some that I love to read about, the Mountain

Meadows Massacre and Polygamy. In 2009, she won the Utah State University's Leonard

J. Arrington Award for a personal essay on her study of polygamy, and another essay titled,

The Rise and Demise of Mormon Polygamy in Mexico is soon to be published in an anthology

by the University of New Mexico Press. And of course, we're going to talk about some of the other stuff

she does. But in my mind, she is one of the most prominent women historians in the LDS church right now.

So we're so lucky to have her. She's smart. She's talented. She does really, really great work.

Thanks, Lizzie. Your check is in the mail. Yeah. See, see how this works. So, yeah, she's currently

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