Claudia L. Bushman
CLAUDIA L. BUSHMAN {[email protected]}, a historian of women and other matters, holds degrees from Wellesley College, Brigham Young University, and Boston University. She is the author of several books, the most recent of which is Going to Boston: Harriet Robinson’s Journey to New Womanhood (University of Chicago Press, 2017). During the current plague, she surveys the world from the tenth floor of a Manhattan apartment overlooking the Hudson River and the New Jersey shore. She hopes to live long enough to complete the final chapter of her autobiography, to be titled “I, Claudia.”
Articles
Short Notice
Read moreLavina Fielding Anderson, Mercy Without End: Toward a More Inclusive Church
Read moreWomen in Dialogue
While to all outward appearances we had nothing to complain of, the first meeting was an impassioned exchange of frustrations, disappointments and confessions. We had expected some serious confrontations because all attending are not in…
Read moreExponent II: Early Decisions
Read moreA Cautionary Voice | Elliott D. Landau, You and Your Child’s World
Dr. Landau, a specialist in child development at the University of Utah, has compiled a warm and sensitive book of advice for parents. The book consists of short discussions on special topics, many edited from…
Read moreFor the Children of the Promise
There must be nearly one hundred separate works interpreting the L.D.S. Church for children. A good number of writers, illustrators and publishers turn out these books, and so, while they all aim at teaching the…
Read moreIntroduction
In June of last year a dozen or so matrons in the Boston area gathered to discuss their lives. The Women’s Liberation movement was then in full flower, making converts and causing all women to…
Read moreWomen: One Man’s Opinion | Rodney Turner, Woman and the Priesthood
Rodney Turner, a BYU professor of Church history and doctrine and a scholar widely revered as the conservatives’ conservative, here attempts to answer some of the burning contemporary questions about which the scriptures are so…
Read moreA Wider Sisterhood: Exponent II
Many readers were surprised and delighted when Exponent II burst upon the scene. “You have lifted my thoughts from the mundane and sweetened my dreams of fulfillment,” wrote one. Another commented, “A newspaper for Mormon…
Read moreSnowy Tea Towels and Spotless Kitchens | Shirley B. Paxman, Homespun: Domestic Arts & Crafts of Mormon Pioneers
Homespun suggests ways for women of today to practice pioneer crafts. Individual chapters on log-cabin cooking, preserving and drying foods, homemade remedies, needle arts, quilts, patchwork, dyeing, producing cloth and clothing, rug making, soapmaking, candlemaking,…
Read moreLight and Dark Thoughts on Death
In the midst of life we are in the midst of death, so the old church fathers tell us, and so we realize every day as a baby dies in childbirth or a friend succumbs…
Read moreA Beloved Apostle | Lucile C. Tate, LeGrand Richards, Beloved Apostle
This triumphant biography is very much what we would expect the official story of a beloved General Authority to be. It is the story of the good boy who grew better and better, of the…
Read moreA Celebration of Sisterhood
I recently completed a short season of speaking at Mormon women’s conferences, largely related to Relief Society. I do not do this as a professional speaker. I don’t sell books, and (at the moment) I…
Read moreSunset Ward
I spent many hours in the Sunset Ward chapel in San Francisco when I was growing up. It was a handsome building, unlike any other ever built in the Church. Firmly planted on a hillside…
Read moreEdward Tullidge and the Women of Mormondom
Read moreMy Short Happy Life with Exponent II
Dialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 191–1933
Claudia Bushman and others reflect back on Exponent II.