Mormons; Mormon women; Agent (Philosophy); American; Feminism - Religious aspects - Mormon Church
A paper that draws upon an ethnography of a contemporary American LDS community and the work of Saba Mahmood to reconceptualize the feminist theoretical category of agency. Within the academic, feminist literature on traditional religious women,...
Mormons; Mormon women; Agent (Philosophy); American; Feminism - Religious aspects - Mormon Church
A paper that draws upon an ethnography of a contemporary American LDS community and the work of Saba Mahmood to reconceptualize the feminist theoretical category of agency. Within the academic, feminist literature on traditional religious women,...
Mormons; Mormon women; Agent (Philosophy); American; Feminism - Religious aspects - Mormon Church
Aileen H. Clyde's portion of the keynote address "Running with it." "It" can be our imagination or our duty, our wish to serve, our opportunities or our need to know or do. "It" is also an expression of our agency as women. The most simple and...
Mormons; Mormon women; Agent (Philosophy); American; Feminism - Religious aspects - Mormon Church
Aileen H. Clyde's portion of the keynote address "Running with it." "It" can be our imagination or our duty, our wish to serve, our opportunities or our need to know or do. "It" is also an expression of our agency as women. The most simple and...
Mormons; Mormon women; Agent (Philosophy); American; Feminism - Religious aspects - Mormon Church
Anna Rolapp's portion of the panel discussion "Embracing agency." Panelists Pam Everson, Sandra Lee, Anna Rolapp, and Marian Ward share their personal experiences with agency. They discuss a moment in which they embraced their own selfhood, when...
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...
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...
Mormons; Mormon women; Agent (Philosophy); American; Feminism - Religious aspects - Mormon Church
Claudia Bushman offers closing remarks for this 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...
Mormon women; Women; Mormonism; Theology; Education; Writing; Oral histories; Chautauquas; Interviews; Congresses and conventions; Contemplation; Lectures and lecturing
Claudia L. Bushman introduces a roundtable discussion by suggesting what Latter-day Saints (LDS) women can do to enlarge their spheres. The participants add their best practical and blue-sky ideas.
Conference flyer: "Mormonism through the eyes of women: envisioning new spaces for theology and practice." Featured speakers, Claudia L. Bushman, Margaret Merrill Toscano, and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Albrecht Auditorium - Claremont Graduate...
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.
Mormons; Mormon women; Agent (Philosophy); American; Feminism - Religious aspects - Mormon Church
Emily Clyde Curtis' portion of the keynote address "Running with it." "It" can be our imagination or our duty, our wish to serve, our opportunities or our need to know or do. "It" is also an expression of our agency as women. The most simple and...
Mormons; Mormon women; Agent (Philosophy); American; Feminism - Religious aspects - Mormon Church
Emily Clyde Curtis' portion of the keynote address "Running with it." "It" can be our imagination or our duty, our wish to serve, our opportunities or our need to know or do. "It" is also an expression of our agency as women. The most simple and...
Mormons; Mormon women; Agent (Philosophy); American; Feminism - Religious aspects - Mormon Church
Feminist theologians and ethicists have long noted a tendency among women to self-sacrifice for their families. This paper analyzes anecdotes from The Mormon Women's Oral History Project, exploring themes of self-sacrifice, self-understanding, and...
