Helynne Hollstein Hansen

HELYNNE HOLLSTEIN HANSEN {[email protected]} received her PhD in French from the University of Utah. She is a professor emeritus of modern languages at Western Colorado University and a former visiting professor of French at Brigham Young University. She is a former staff writer for the Church News and Deseret News. She is author of a scholarly monograph Hortense Allart: The Woman and the Novelist, and a novel, Voices at the Crossroads. She currently resides in Salt Lake City.

Articles

Feminism, Polygamy, and Murder | John Bennion, An Unarmed Woman.

“I’m like Alma’s daughters,” rough-and-tumble ranch girl Rachel O’Brian tells her polygamist stepfather J.D. Rockwell. “Someone has to speak up to you patriarchs” (118). An Unarmed Woman is a gripping murder mystery as well as…

In Search of Women’s Language and Feminist Expression Among Nauvoo Wives in A Little Lower Than the Angels

The Local Politics of Vice and Virtue | Jeffrey Nichols, Prostitution, Polygamy and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847-1918

One of the most intriguing ironies of life in Salt Lake City during the nineteenth century was the clash of the Mormons who were morally outraged to see the advent of prostitution in their valley…