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...
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...
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...
Handout by: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich,
Mormon History Association Meeting,
Killington, Vermont May 27, 2005,
Mormon Women in the History of Second Wave Feminism
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
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,...
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
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...
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...
