Mormon Feminism

Author : Joanna Brooks,Rachel Hunt Steenblik,Hannah Wheelwright
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190248031

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Mormon Feminism by Joanna Brooks,Rachel Hunt Steenblik,Hannah Wheelwright Pdf

This collection gathers together the essential writings of the contemporary Mormon feminist movement--from its historic beginnings in the 1970s to its vibrant present, offering the best Mormon feminist thought and writing. The selections in this book -many gathered from out-of-print anthologies, magazines, and other ephemera--walk the reader through the history of Mormon feminism, from the second-wave feminism of the 1970s to contemporary debates over the ordination of women. Collecting essays, speeches, poems, and prose, Mormon Feminism presents the diverse voices of Mormon women as they challenge assumptions and stereotypes, push for progress and change in the contemporary LDS Church, and band together with other feminists of faith hoping to build a better world.

Author : Gary Shepherd,Lavina Fielding Anderson,Gordon Shepherd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1589587588

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Voices for Equality: Ordain Women and Resurgent Mormon Feminism by Gary Shepherd,Lavina Fielding Anderson,Gordon Shepherd Pdf

The inexorable movement toward gender equality in the modern world has taken root in the consciousness of many Latter-day Saints and has publicly emerged as a major concern for the LDS Church. Spearheaded by a new generation of internet-savvy feminists, equality issues in Mormonism attained high public visibility in 2013 through online profiles posted by the Ordain Women organization and its plea to Church authorities to pray about an expanded role for LDS women. The June 2014 excommunication of OW co-founder Kate Kelly generated increased international media attention. This volume is the first book to provide a comprehensive examination of these issues and is based on chapters written by both scholars and activists. Its twenty-five authors explore in detail theological debates about gender and priesthood authority, the historical and cultural context of these debates, and the current role played by lay activists seeking to stimulate change in the Church.

Author : Maxine Hanks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015029252254

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Women and Authority by Maxine Hanks Pdf

Utah women today might be surprised to learn their grandmothers' views on feminist issues, according to Maxine Hanks. LDS Relief Society co-founder Sarah Kimball referred to herself as "a woman's rights woman, " while Bathsheba Smith was called on Relief Society mission in 1870 to preach equal rights for women. The society editorialized that females belonged not only "in the nursery" but also "in the library, the laboratory, the observatory." Sisters sent east to study medicine were assured that "when men see that women can exist without them, it will perhaps take a little of the conceit out of some of them." Temple officiators were called "priestesses, " Eliza R. Snow the "prophetess, " and women were discouraged from confessing to bishops on grounds that personal matters "should be referred to the Relief Society president and her counselors." Women were set apart as healers "with power to rebuke diseases." In addition, Mormon theology spoke reassuringly of a Mother God of the divinity of Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Eve. No wonder Relief Society president Emmeline B. Wells could write with confidence: "Let woman speak for herself; she has the right of freedom of speech. Women are too slow in moving forward, afraid of criticism, of being called unwomanly, of being thought masculine."

Author : Sonia Johnson
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015009207112

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From Housewife to Heretic by Sonia Johnson Pdf

Author : Joanna Brooks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451699692

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The Book of Mormon Girl by Joanna Brooks Pdf

From her days of feeling like “a root beer among the Cokes”—Coca-Cola being a forbidden fruit for Mormon girls like her—Joanna Brooks always understood that being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints set her apart from others. But, in her eyes, that made her special; the devout LDS home she grew up in was filled with love, spirituality, and an emphasis on service. With Marie Osmond as her celebrity role model and plenty of Sunday School teachers to fill in the rest of the details, Joanna felt warmly embraced by the community that was such an integral part of her family. But as she grew older, Joanna began to wrestle with some tenets of her religion, including the Church’s stance on women’s rights and homosexuality. In 1993, when the Church excommunicated a group of feminists for speaking out about an LDS controversy, Joanna found herself searching for a way to live by the leadings of her heart and the faith she loved. The Book of Mormon Girl is a story about leaving behind the innocence of childhood belief and embracing the complications and heartbreaks that come to every adult life of faith. Joanna’s journey through her faith explores a side of the religion that is rarely put on display: its humanity, its tenderness, its humor, its internal struggles. In Joanna’s hands, the everyday experience of being a Mormon—without polygamy, without fundamentalism—unfolds in fascinating detail. With its revelations about a faith so often misunderstood and characterized by secrecy, The Book of Mormon Girl is a welcome advocate and necessary guide.

Author : Tiffany D. Kinney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793605863

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Legitimization of Mormon Feminist Rhetors by Tiffany D. Kinney Pdf

Legitimization of Mormon Feminist Rhetors explores how marginalized groups craft legitimacy for themselves by strategically employing rhetorical devices. This monograph draws upon archival research to conduct a pan-historical (1850s–present) analysis of the legitimacy strategies taken up by Mormon feminist women.

Author : Charles R. Harrell
Publisher : Greg Kofford Books
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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“This Is My Doctrine”: The Development of Mormon Theology by Charles R. Harrell Pdf

The principal doctrines defining Mormonism today often bear little resemblance to those it started out with in the early 1830s. This book shows that these doctrines did not originate in a vacuum but were rather prompted and informed by the religious culture from which Mormonism arose. Early Mormons, like their early Christian and even earlier Israelite predecessors, brought with them their own varied culturally conditioned theological presuppositions (a process of convergence) and only later acquired a more distinctive theological outlook (a process of differentiation). In this first-of-its-kind comprehensive treatment of the development of Mormon theology, Charles Harrell traces the history of Latter-day Saint doctrines from the times of the Old Testament to the present. He describes how Mormonism has carried on the tradition of the biblical authors, early Christians, and later Protestants in reinterpreting scripture to accommodate new theological ideas while attempting to uphold the integrity and authority of the scriptures. In the process, he probes three questions: How did Mormon doctrines develop? What are the scriptural underpinnings of these doctrines? And what do critical scholars make of these same scriptures? In this enlightening study, Harrell systematically peels back the doctrinal accretions of time to provide a fresh new look at Mormon theology. “This Is My Doctrine” will provide those already versed in Mormonism’s theological tradition with a new and richer perspective of Mormon theology. Those unacquainted with Mormonism will gain an appreciation for how Mormon theology fits into the larger Jewish and Christian theological traditions.

Author : Terryl L. Givens,Reid L. Neilson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231149426

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The Columbia Sourcebook of Mormons in the United States by Terryl L. Givens,Reid L. Neilson Pdf

This anthology provides rare access to key original documents illuminating Mormon history, theology, and culture in the United States from the nineteenth century to today. Brief introductions describe the theological significance of each text and its reflection of the practices, issues, and challenges that have defined and continue to define the Mormon community. These documents balance mainstream and peripheral thought and religious experience, institutional and personal perspective, and theoretical and practical interpretation, representing pivotal moments in LDS history and correcting decades of misinformation and stereotype. The authors of these documents, male and female, not only celebrate but speak critically and question mainline LDS teachings on sexuality, politics, gender, race, polygamy, and other issues. Selections largely focus on the Salt LakeÐbased LDS tradition, with a section on the postÐJoseph Smith splintering and its creation of a variety of similar yet different Mormon groups. The documents are arranged chronologically within specific categories to capture both the historical and doctrinal development of Mormonism in the United States.

Author : Taylor G. Petrey,Amy Hoyt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1315 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351181587

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The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender by Taylor G. Petrey,Amy Hoyt Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender is an outstanding reference source to this controversial subject area. Since its founding in 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has engaged gender in surprising ways. LDS practice of polygamy in the nineteenth century both fueled rhetoric of patriarchal rule as well as gave polygamous wives greater autonomy than their monogamous peers. The tensions over women’s autonomy continued after polygamy was abandoned and defined much of the twentieth century. In the 1970s, 1990s, and 2010s, Mormon feminists came into direct confrontation with the male Mormon hierarchy. These public clashes produced some reforms, but fell short of accomplishing full equality. LGBT Mormons have a similar history. These movements are part of the larger story of how Mormonism has managed changing gender norms in a global context. Comprising over forty chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into four parts: • Methodological issues • Historical approaches • Social scientific approaches • Theological approaches. These sections examine central issues, debates, and problems, including: agency, feminism, sexuality and sexual ethics, masculinity, queer studies, plural marriage, homosexuality, race, scripture, gender and the priesthood, the family, sexual violence, and identity. The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, gender studies, and women’s studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as cultural studies, politics, anthropology, and sociology.

Author : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307742124

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A House Full of Females by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Pdf

From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History, and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and determination. A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never-before-told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage," whose right to vote in the state of Utah was given to them by a Mormon-dominated legislature as an outgrowth of polygamy in 1870, fifty years ahead of the vote nationally ratified by Congress, and who became political actors in spite of, or because of, their marital arrangements. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, writing of this small group of Mormon women who've previously been seen as mere names and dates, has brilliantly reconstructed these textured, complex lives to give us a fulsome portrait of who these women were and of their "sex radicalism"--the idea that a woman should choose when and with whom to bear children.

Author : Marilyn Warenski
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015000603475

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Patriarchs and Politics by Marilyn Warenski Pdf

Author : Jeremy Runnells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0998869902

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CES Letter by Jeremy Runnells Pdf

CES Letter is one Latter-Day Saint's honest quest to get official answers from the LDS Church (Mormon) on its troubling origins, history, and practices. Jeremy Runnells was offered an opportunity to discuss his own doubts with a director of the Church Educational System (CES) and was assured that his doubts could be resolved. After reading Jeremy's letter, the director promised him a response.No response ever came.

Author : George Dempster Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015032988472

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Religion, Feminism, and Freedom of Conscience by George Dempster Smith Pdf

A dozen essays, all but one from a September 1993 gathering in Salt Lake City, examine how Mormon and humanist concurrence on the basic principles of freedom of consciousness and the right to exercise free agency, developed into a divergence of opinion on, for example, the expulsion of two professors from Brigham Young University for expressing ideas at variance with Mormon doctrine. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Sara K. S. Hanks
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-10
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 1717433529

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Where We Must Stand by Sara K. S. Hanks Pdf

Where We Must Stand: Ten Years of Feminist Mormon Housewives is an anthology of blog posts from the first decade of the Feminist Mormon Housewives blog, 2004-2014. The posts discuss Mormon women's experiences of wrestling with feminism in a conservative religious tradition. The book highlights individual moments of reflection and faith while tracking the growth and progress of a larger community and religious social movement. Bloggers and community members moved from writing to activism, witnessed the public excommunication of a community member, mourned, and changed. The Feminist Mormon Housewives blog emerged at a time when the broader Mormon feminist movement was in decline. The bloggers shared their discovery of Mormon feminist history, concerns and fears about polygamy, the difficulty of navigating church and family relationships, losing and finding faith, the worst sex talk that ever happened in a church setting, and the awakening of a broader social consciousness. In doing so, they invited a new generation of women into the movement and helped to rebuild it. Where We Must Stand includes more than a hundred and thirty blog posts, historical introductions, reflective essays from bloggers and readers, and extensive notes. It is an introduction to the lived experiences of Mormon women that doesn't shy away from the problematic elements of being Mormon while working toward gender equity.

Author : Carol Lynn Pearson
Publisher : Pivot Point Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0997458208

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The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men by Carol Lynn Pearson Pdf

"Polygamy?" says the mainstream Mormon Church. "We gave that up long ago." Not so, claims noted LDS poet and author Carol Lynn Pearson, who examines the issue as it has never been examined before. Any member of the LDS Church today who enters the practice of polygamy is immediately excommunicated. However, Pearson claims, polygamy itself has never been excommunicated, but has an honored and protected place at the table. It has only been postponed, a fact confirmed by thousands of "eternal sealings" giving a man an assurance that he will claim as wives in heaven the two, three, or even more women he has sequentially married during his lifetime. No such opportunity is available to women. Through her own personal stories, those of her ancestors, and the thousands of stories that came to her through an Internet survey, Pearson shows the power of the Ghost of Eternal Polygamy as it not only waits on the other side to greet the most righteous in heaven, but also haunts the living-hiding in the recesses of the Mormon psyche, inflicting profound pain and fear, assuring women that they are still objects, harming or destroying marriages, bringing chaos to family relationships, leading many to lose faith in the church and in God. Mormon historian and author Dr. Gregory Prince says of The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: "Carol Lynn Pearson has hit a home run in her quest to illuminate both the damage that Mormonism's de facto practice of polygamy continues to inflict, and the route to a better, more humane place. Those who truly hope for eternal polygamy or who resent any call to institutional reform will be upset, but countless others will rejoice that she has shown 'a more excellent way.' "