Author discusses selected themes in the history of second-wave feminism in connection with Mormon feminism while focusing on the emergence of feminist groups, the discovery of history, and the double bind of identity politics where Mormon feminists...
Author discusses the importance of women's blogs in recent years. Especially to feminist Mormon women who discuss everything from the triumphs and challenges of motherhood to the conflicting ideals that feminism and Mormonism present. The author...
Mormons; Mormon women; Agent (Philosophy); American; Feminism - Religious aspects - Mormon Church
The introduction to a one-day conference in which the choices, insights, and agency of Mormon women was explored. Keynote speakers included Aileen Clyde, former 2nd Counselor in the Latter-day Saint General Relief Society Presidency, and Emily...
Agent (Philosophy); Congresses and conventions; Mormon women; Programs; Printed ephemera
Program for the conference held at the Balch Auditorium on the Scripps College Campus, February 5, 2011.
The conference was sponsored by the Singer Foundation, LDS Council on Mormon Studies, Claremont School of Religion, Claremont Mormon Studies...
Mormon women; Women; Mormonism; Theology; Hafen, Bruce C.; Hafen, Marie K.; Maxwell, Neal A.; Snow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey), 1804-1887; Woodruff, Wilford, 1807-1898; Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844; Smith, Emma Hale; Smith, Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding),...
Deidre Green presents a paper that opens a fruitful consideration of what Latter-day Saints (LDS) women’s relationship to theology has been in the past and what it can be in the future.
Mormon women; Women; Mormonism; Second-wave feminism; Women's history; Equal rights amendments; Women authors; Eve (Biblical figure); Leadership; Political activists; Lectures and lecturing
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich presents a paper that situates the history of “Exponent Women” and other contemporary Latter-day Saints (LDS) groups in the context of the larger history of grassroots feminism.
Margaret Merrill Toscano presents a paper that explores the implications for contemporary Latter-day Saints (LDS) women of the Mormon concept of divine embodiment.
Loyd Ericson presents a paper that shows that Mary Daly’s criticism of a masculine deity implies an even stronger criticism of Mormon theology as it is practiced today.
Mormon women; Women; Mormonism; Theology; Heaven; Salvation; Eve (Biblical figure); Adam (Biblical figure); Patriarchy; Man-woman relationships; Lectures and lecturing
Sheila Taylor presents a paper that will examine the role of gender in the Latter-day Saints (LDS) understanding of salvation. In particular, she will look at what is involved in the redemption from the Fall, considering possible connections...
Mormon women; Women; Mormonism; Dioceses; Hunt, Swanee; Little, Deborah Whiting; Second-wave feminism; Religious gatherings; Lectures and lecturing
Kate Holbrook presents a paper that tells the stories of women she has known who have exercised a bishopric, including a British Relief Society president who led relief convoys into war zones, an Episcopalian priest's ministry to the homeless, and...
Mormon women; Women; Mormonism; Blogs; Feminism; Relief Society (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints); Lectures and lecturing
Caroline Kline presents a paper that discusses the ways feminist Mormon blog posts about Heavenly Mother manifest women's religious ambivalence. She finds that Mormon women on these blogs innovate in their religious practice and in their theology...
