Claudia L. Bushman

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Lavina Fielding Anderson, Mercy Without End: Toward a More Inclusive Church

Women 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…

Exponent II: Early Decisions

A 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…

For 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…

Introduction

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…

Women: 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…

A 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…

Snowy 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,…

Light 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…

A 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…

A 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…

Sunset 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…

Edward Tullidge and the Women of Mormondom

My Short Happy Life with Exponent II

Dialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 191–1933
Claudia Bushman and others reflect back on Exponent II.

Should Mormon Women Speak Out? Thoughts on Our Place in the World

We Should Do A Study