Winter 2014
The Winter 2014 issue features several unique and prominent female voices in the church. The issue begins with Joanna Brooks looking to the future in "Mormon Feminism: The Next Forty Years," followed by a fascinating look at sister missionaries in "A Swelling Tide: Nineteen-Year-Old Sister Missionaries in the Twenty-First Century" by Courtney L. Rabada. Nancy Ross and Jessica Finnigan provide a fascinating and timely article, "Mormon Feminist Perspectives on the Mormon Digital Awakening: A Study of Identity and Personal Narratives." Several fascinating personal voices are featured followed by an interview titled "Developing Integrity in an Uncertain World: An Interview with Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife" by Kristine Haglund.
Dialogue 47.4 (Winter 2014): 167–180
Brooks talks about the period from 1970s Mormon feminism in Boston to the present and imagines what needs to be part of the future. She identifies five areas for Mormon feminism: theology, institutions, racial inclusion, financial independence, and spiritual independence.
“It was not a self-consistent ideology but a movement—a tremor in the earth, a lift in the wind, a swelling tide . . . an exhilarating sense of discovery, a utopian hope that women might…
Dialogue 47.4 (Winter 2014): 47–83
This study examines online Mormon feminists’ identities and beliefs and their responses to the Mormon Digital Awakening. This is the first published survey of online Mormon feminists, which gathered quantitative and qualitative data from 1,862 selfidentified Mormon feminists.
Dialogue 47.4 (Winter 2014): 85–90 Defenses of the male-only LDS priesthood generally pursue a combination of three approaches: ground the practice in ancient scripture, secure it in Restoration history and tradition, or justify it through its sociological effects on gender culture and family formation in the present day.
1886 When Darby turned fifteen, his mother Cora said if he didn’t make up his mind to accept Jesus pretty soon, it would be too late. She said he had to make the choice either…
Dialogue 47.4 (Winter 2014): 79–84 One day you’ll probably hear the name Kate Kelly. And you’ll probably ask me my thoughts about her and her work with Ordain Women and her subsequent excommunication.
Dialogue 47.4 (Winter 2014): 89–94
The day the missionaries came to our house in 1988, a rainbow fell across the sky in our neighborhood on the hill. I stood on the ledge of the bathtub and curled my fingers on the windowsill to pull my scrawny body up to see.
