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.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• The must-read essay by historian William MacKinnon:
• Sex, Subalterns, and Steptoe: Army Behavior, Mormon Rage, and Utah War Anxieties
• Additional info from the LDS Church History Library Here.