| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1

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Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts. By Laura L. Bush. (Logan: Utah State University Press. 2004. xviii + 244 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95, paper.)

Faithful Transgressions is a reading of six Mormon women's autobiographies in which Laura Bush insightfully traces a theme: how women can be faithful, loyal members of Mormonism, and at the same time "transgress" against it in some way, either ideologically or organizationally. One of the women, historian Juanita Brooks, risked excommunication for dealing with a taboo subject. Another, Annie Clark Tanner, came to cherish a secret, liberal faith that conservatives would consider heretical. Another, a polygamous wife, quietly painted a grim portrait of polygamy, one of the fundamental doctrines of nineteenth-century Mormonism. The last two Mormon women are less involved in the institutional church, but have nevertheless retained ties to Mormon culture.

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