‘Mormon Land’: How LDS women shaped conservative Christian ideals around womanhood

From Helen Andelin to Hannah Neeleman, female members of the church have had an outsized influence, a new book argues, on ideas around the “perfect wife.”

(Kristin Kobes Du Mez) Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a professor of history at Calvin University and the author of "Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made."