[…] welfare fund. The Cambridge Ward provided capital and encouragement, and the local women did the research and writing. Then in 1971, Robert Rees, editor of Dialogue, entrusted a special issue of Dialogue to them, […]
[…] a Mormon epic will always be “mere vulgarizations of a great story.” It takes a Tolstoy to get the Napoleonic Wars into a novel, and even he did not try to put the reader […]
[…] and a 1948 law prohibiting women from involvement in combat is still used to bar women from service in the thousands of assignments in “combat type” positions during peacetime. The result is that women […]
[…] are only about 400 such missionaries in the field compared to 26 thousand proselyting missionaries. See “Welfare Service Missions,” Sunstone 3(July/August 1978):6. Brigham Young University initiated in 1973 an effort to improve living conditions […]
[…] be defended, they will never stand the strict scrutiny of the word of life. And Sidney Rigdon, writing in 1836, asserts: The Latter Day Saints believe that Christ will prepare the way of his […]
[…] this branch. It seems they have here an abundance of aging addlepates.” To Gerard’s immense relief, the service began immediately. Mme. Jardins, furious for a while, stirred, snorted, and coughed, but gradually she became […]
[…] the personal voice, announcing her own intention to avoid such unworthy self disclosure. Yet here was Claudia writing in this scholarly intellectual journal about one of the most intimate of all experiences, and here […]
[…] appropriate for women, an attitude Emmeline deplored: “I can see no good, sound, wholesome reason against woman’s writing upon any of the general topics of the day,” she wrote in 1875. “She may be […]
[…] tension implied between personal acceptance and negative pressures identifies yet another source of negative feelings. Diane Higginson, writing in DIALOGUE in 1971, identified the situation as “being in the right Church but in the […]
[…] however, that it was my intention to go on with the consideration to the last analysis. In writing out this my report to you of those studies, I have written it from the viewpoint […]