Woman's Exponent

Woman's Exponent (1872 to 1914)

September 15, 1880 issue
Type	Periodical
Editor	Louisa Lula Greene (1872–1877) Emmeline B. Wells (1877–1914)
Associate editor	Annie Wells Cannon (1905-1914)
Founded	1872
Language	English
Ceased publication	1914
Headquarters	Salt Lake City

The Woman's Exponent was a semi-official publication of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that began in 1872. It published articles advocating for women's suffrage and plural marriage, in addition to poetry and other writings. Lula Greene Richards and Emmeline B. Wells were its editors until 1914, when the Exponent was dissolved. It was "the first long-lived feminist periodical in the western United States."^[1] While it had no direct successor, the Relief Society did launch its own magazine, the Relief Society Magazine, in 1915.

A new publication, independent of the church but partially inspired by the earlier magazine, was launched by a women's group in Massachusetts in 1974, entitled Exponent II, and continues to the present day, along with a program of annual retreats, and latterly a semi-autonomous blog site, The Exponent.