Kate Holbrook discusses 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 a billionaire oil...
The author discusses women's ability to be both a Christian and a Theologian equal to men revealing a clear tension as to whether or not women can do theology in an LDS context.
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; 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.
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,...
