Carry On

The Young Women organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has influenced millions of women across the globe since its founding more than 150 years ago. Carry On: The Latter-day Saint Young Women Organization, 1870-2024 offers the first extended scholarly history of this organization.

Carry On traces the development of Young Women from a small association founded among Brigham Young's daughters into today's global organization. Chronicling the organization's continuous commitment to religious foundations and purposes amid changing cultural circumstances, the book draws from autobiographies, oral histories, correspondence, local and general meeting minutes, church magazines, a variety of curriculum materials, and other records.

This history documents how Young Women leaders navigated rapidly changing social and cultural currents and varying conceptions of womanhood and femininity and how they increasingly sought to create programs that would be relevant for young women across the globe. No matter the era, the place, or the circumstances, leaders throughout the organization's history have displayed a steadfast commitment to shepherding the young women in their care and strengthening their discipleship with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Carry On offers an essential contribution to the growing body of scholarship on Latter-day Saint women's history, and to studies of women, religion, youth, and childhood more generally.