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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
