| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2

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Book Review

Pedestals and Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights. By Martha Sonntag Bradley. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2005. xxiv + 613 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, index. $39.95.)

In Pedestals and Podiums, Martha Sonntag Bradley offers a deeply researched history of a decade of social activism (1972–1982). In her study of the participation of Utah women and the Mormon Church in the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) debate, Bradley takes pains to show both sides of the ERA story. She argues that both pro-ERA and anti-ERA activists in Utah believed deeply that this fight "mattered," but that different "cognitive schema" divided proponents and opponents (p. 446). Anti-ERA forces, with the help of the Mormon Church, eventually triumphed with a rhetoric that blended traditional womanhood, conservative religiosity, and fear of social change. In this expansive monograph, Bradley convinces readers that both local activism and Mormon opposition are crucial aspects of any history of the ERA.

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