Volume 23, No. 3

Fall 1990

The Fall 1990 Issue centers on the experiences, contributions, and challenges of women within the Mormon Church and broader community. Lavina Fielding Anderson examines the life and accomplishments of Helen Candland Stark, particularly her critique of societal expectations of women. Amy L. Bentley discusses supporting children who have lost mothers, while the Alice Louise Reynolds Women's Forum highlights the role of women as nurturers and healers. Betina Lindsey reflects on women’s contributions as healers within the church, and Alison Walker critiques patriarchal theological foundations. Anne Castleton speaks on domestic violence within the community, and Linda Sillitoe addresses the complexities surrounding support systems for those affected. Phyllis Barber considers the unique perspective of Mormon women writers, and Veneta Nielsen honors poet May Swenson for her literary contributions. And more!

Articles/Essays

A Strenuous Business: The Achievement of Helen Candland Stark

Lavina Fielding Anderson

The Good Woman Syndrome

Helen Candland Stark

Comforting the Motherless Children: The Alice Louise Reynolds Women’s Forum

Amy L. Bentley

Woman as Healer in the Modern Church

Betina Lindsey

Dialogue 23.3 (Fall 1990): 65–82
Evidence from Mormon women’s journals, diaries, and meeting
minutes tells us that from the 1840s until as recently as the 1930s,
LDS women served their families, each other, and the broader community, expanding their own spiritual gifts in the process.

Theological Foundations of Patriarchy

Alison Walker

Dialogue 23.3 (Fall 1990): 79–95
MOST RESEARCH BY MORMON FEMINISTS has been historical in nature. Proponents of greater power and privilege for women cite as precedents the lives of Huldah and Deborah of the Old Testament, the treatment of women by Jesus Christ, or the activities of pioneer women in the early restored Church.

Speaking Out on Domestic Violence

Anne Castleton

Rescue from Home: Some Ins and Outs

Linda Sillitoe

The Mormon Woman as Writer

Phyllis Barber

A Tribute to May Swenson

Veneta Leatham Nielsen

Songs

Lisa Madsen De Rubilar

Marta Pillahuel was very old. She lived in the country with her pigs on one side and her chickens on the other. Her wooden house leaned to the east and let in the weather—a warm…

The Chastity Gum

Lael Littke

It wasn’t like Sister Farley to chew gum. She took her stewardship over her little swarm of Beehive girls seriously, and normally she was the very soul of decorum, showing us by her dress and…

The Six-Buck Fortune

Helen Walker Jones

I remember that day perfectly—every violet plum with its orange smudges, the rim of the huge blue canning kettle smeared with thick yellow slime and little tatters of purple peel. It was the day I…