Feminism
Recommended
Woman as Healer in the Modern Church
Betina LindseyDialogue 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.
Toward a Feminist Interpretation of Latter-day Scripture
Lynn Matthews AndersonDialogue 27.2 (Summer 1994): 197–230
I am astonished that it took so many readings and a focus on the question of using gender-inclusive language in the simplified version to discover something that should have been obvious to me from the beginning: females scarcely figure or matter in our sacred books.
An Expanded Definition of Priesthood? Some Present and Future Consequences
Margaret WheatleyDialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 319–325
But the fact that we must look at organizational dynamics before we can begin to understand the issues that would be raised by expanding priesthood to include women is an apt commentary on the complex and sometimes confused role that priesthood authority has come to play in the modern church.
“Dear Brethren” — Claiming a Voice in the Church
Carol Lynn PearsonCarol Lynn Pearson explains ways she has claimed a voice and encouraged others to do so.
“My Indignation Has Got the Better of My Intention”: A Case Study in Latter-day Saint and “Gentile” Female Family Correspondence in Nineteenth-Century America
Bonnie YoungListen to the audio version of this piece here. Although members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints shared many values with their Christian neighbors, the differences between Mormons and non-Mormons during the…
In Defense of Heavenly Mother: Her Critical Importance for Mormon Culture and Theology
Margaret Merrill ToscanoDialogue 55.1 (Spring 2022): 37
Marginalizing God the Mother does not solve the problems raised by Mormonism’s doctrine of divine and human embodiment. It merely diminishes femaleness as a reflection of divinity. We do not need fewer images to understand God; we need more. Critics of Heavenly Mother have not fully grasped the negative consequences of moving toward a God beyond gender
Gendering Mormon Studies—At Last! Amy Hoyt and Taylor G. Petrey, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
Christine TalbotWomen’s and gender studies emerged out of the women’s and sexual liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, movements the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vigorously opposed. The so-called New Mormon History flourished around the same time, opening the field to new approaches
Fear, Faith, and Other F-Words
T BoydPodcast version of this piece. I’m sitting in the bishop’s office. My dress is slightly damp, but I can’t determine whether the moisture is a result of the snowstorm or sweat beading beneath the cotton.…
Unpacking Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Mormonism Taylor G. Petrey, Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
Alison HalfordInevitably at some point, due to structural white patriarchal privilege and a central and abiding concern with discrete gendered bodies and heteronormative relations, the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will…
Sisterhood and the Divine Feminine Twila Newey, Sylvia
Rebecca BatemanLike a mother opening her arms to embrace her children, the span of mountains and trees that look over my childhood home in Salt Lake City extend to the south and cradle also the homes…
Mette Harrison, The Women’s Book of Mormon: Volume One
Adam MclainLavina Fielding Anderson, Mercy Without End: Toward a More Inclusive Church
Claudia L. BushmanBeauty in the Irreversible Lisa Van Orman Hadley. Irreversible Things
Sarah Nickel MooreJudging by its length, Irreversible Things is the kind of book that I should have been able to finish in a couple hours. Perhaps one evening, after the kids had gone to bed, I could curl up…
The Gebirah and Female Power
Amber RichardsonTipping the Scales: LDS Women and Power in Recent Scholarship
Charlotte Hansen TerryA Rising Generation: Women in Power in Young Adult Novels Jo Cassidy. Good Girls Stay Quiet Emily King. Before the Broken Star Julie Berry. Lovely War
Katherine CowleyThe Order of Eve: A Matriarchal Priesthood
Kyra N. KrakosDialogue 53.1 (Spring 2020): 99–107
Elder Oaks clarified that priesthood is the authority and power of God. By extension, that must also be the authority and power of our Heavenly Mother. I decided to give it a name. Not the Order of Aaron, that great Old Testament wingman to Moses, or the Order of Melchizedek, mentor and life coach to Abraham, but the Order of Eve, a matriarchal priesthood, in honor of the mother of all living.
The Stories We Tell—And What They Tell Us
Heather SundahlThe Power of an Unbroken Woman
Joy Sitawa RichardsThe Other Crime: Abortion and Contraception in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Utah
Amanda Hendrix-KomotoDialogue 53.1 (Spring 2020): 33–47
In this essay, I discuss this history, present evidence that Latter-day Saint men sold abortion pills in the late nineteenth century, and argue that it is likely some Latter-day Saint women took them in an attempt to restore menstrual cycles that anemia, pregnancy, or illness had temporarily “stopped.” Women living in the twenty-first century are unable to access these earlier understandings of pregnancy because the way we understand pregnancy has changed as a result of debates over the criminalization of abortion and the development of ultrasound technology.
Feminism, Polygamy, and Murder John Bennion. An Unarmed Woman.
Helynne Hollstein HansenJohn Bennion’s work is set in the late 1880s and focuses on plural marriage through the lens of a murder mystery.
Roundtable: When Feminists Excommunicate
Mette Ivie HarrisonDialogue 50.1 (Spring 2017): 183–192
I am concerned about the ways in which I see patriarchy swallow up the demands of feminism and use them against women. Each time we gain som
Roundtable: Mormon Women and the Anatomy of Belonging
Neylan McBaineDialogue 50.1 (Spring 2017): 193–200
n looking at the definition of Mormon womanhood, it seems to me that the boundaries of that community have shifted over the past almost two hundred years from being initially proscribed by the institution, in the early days of the Nauvoo Relief Society, to essentially being defined by the Mormon women themselves in today’s modern global Church.
Roundtable: Shifting Boundaries of Feminist Theology: What Have We Learned?
Maxine HanksDialogue 50.1 (Spring 2017): 167–180
This tendency to rewrite Relief Society history continued from the
1850s into the 1990s.
A Double Portion: An Intertextual Reading of Hannah (1 Samuel 1–2) and Mark’s Greek Woman (Mark 7:24–30)
Julie M. SmithThe Physical Process of Creation
Carrel Hilton SheldonDiscovering the Woman’s Exponent
Susan Whitaker KohlerKey Turning Points in Exponent II’s History
Nancy Tate DredgeExponent II: Early Decisions
Claudia L. BushmanA Laurel’s First-Night Fantasies
Theric JepsonPossibility one, extrapolated from what Betty, second clarinet, said about what Tabitha, first clarinet, did last Saturday: They enter the hotel room, both of them shaking as only virgins can shake. Somehow he manages to…
Listening to Each Other: Religion, Feminism, and Freedom of Conscience: A Mormon/Humanist Dialogue Edited by George D. Smith
Florien J. WineriterA Mormon Mother: An Autobiography by Annie Clark Tanner
Charlotte Cannon JohnstonBiography of an Indian Latter-day Saint Women: Me and Mine: The Life Story of Helen Sekaquaptewa as told to Louise Udall
Grace F. ArringtonLyrics and Love in Orderville: A review of the music of The Orders is Love by Lex de Azevedo
A. Laurence LyonFiddlin’ Around in Orderville, or, A Mormon on the Roof: The Order is Love by Carol Lynn Pearson
Richard CracroftThe Mattress
Georgina Alvillar WibertThe Courtship
Patricia Rasmussen EatonSnowflake Girl
Louise Larson ComishTriad
Mary Lythgoe BradfordMy Temple
Blanche BerryThe Perennial Harlot
Blanche BerryFriends
Blanche BerryDevotion to Sam
Blanche BerryCanyon Country
Ina Jespersen HobsonMormon Country Women: With an Introduction by Gordon Thomasson
Dorothea LangeMother’s Day, 1971
Lucybeth RamptonDirt: A Compendium of Household Wisdom
Shirley GeeSingle Voices: Thoughts on Living Alone
Alberta BakerSingle Voices: A Candid and Uncensored Interview with a Mormon Career Girl
M. Karlynn HinmanSingle Voices: Journal Jottings
Dianne HigginsonSingle Voices: A Letter Home
AnonymousSomewhere Inbetween
Grethe Ballif PetersonBelle Spafford: A Sketch
JoAnn Woodruff BairA Survey of Women General Board Members
Dixie Snow HuefnerAll Children Are Alike Unto Me
Almera Anderson RomneyThe Mormon Woman and Priesthood Authority: The Other Voice
Cheryll MayAnd Woe Unto Them That Are With Child In Those Days
Laurel Thatcher UlrichDialogue 6.2 (Summer 1972): 40–47
It isn’t easy these days to be a Momon mother of four. In the university town where I live, fertility is tolerated but not encouraged. Every time I drive to the grocery store, bumper stickers remind me that Overpopulation Begins At Home, and I am admonished to Make Love, Not Babies. At church I have the opposite problem. My youngest is almost two and if I hurry off to Primary without a girdle, somebody’s sure to look suspiciously at my flabby stomach and start imagining things. Everybody else is pregnant, why not I?
Having One’s Cake and Eating It Too
Christine Meaders DurhamBlessed Damozels: Women in Mormon History
Leonard J. ArringtonI Married a Family
Juanita BrooksFull House
Jaroldeen Asplund EdwardsA Time of Decision
Judy DushkuMy Personal Rubicon
Eleanor Ricks ColtonMary Fielding Smith: Her Ox Goes Marching On
Lavina Fielding AndersonGetting Unmarried in a Married Church
Marybeth RaynesWomen and Ordination: Introduction to the Biblical Context
Anthony A. HutchinsonDialogue 14.4 (Winter 1981): 60–69
THE QUESTION of whether worthy women could be or ought to be ordained to the LDS priesthood has not, until recently, been considered seriously in the LDS community.
Women and Priesthood
Nadine HansenDialogue 14.4 (Winter 1981): 48–59
I smiled wryly at the cartoon on the stationery. The picture showed a woman standing before an all-male ecclesiastical board and asking, “Are you trying to tell me that God is not an equal opportunity employer?” I thought to myself, “Yes, that is precisely what women have been told for centuries.”
Mormon Women and the Struggle for Definition
Carol Cornwall MadsenDialogue 14.4 (Winter 1981): 40–47
I am sensitive to that steadying hand as I attempt to identify and define what for an earlier generation of women identified and defined them as women—their relationship to the Church.
The Pink Dialogue and Beyond
Laurel Thatcher UlrichDialogue 14.4 (Winter 1981): 28–39
Some time in June 1970,I invited a few friends to my house to chat about the then emerging women’s movement. If I had known we were about to make history, I would have taken minutes or at least passed a roll around, but of course I didn’t.
A Tribute to May Swenson
Veneta NielsenThe Mormon Woman as Writer
Phyllis BarberRescue from Home: Some Ins and Outs
Linda SillitoeSpeaking Out on Domestic Violence
Anne CastletonTheological Foundations of Patriarchy
Alison WalkerDialogue 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.
Woman as Healer in the Modern Church
Betina LindseyDialogue 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.
Comforting the Motherless Children: The Alice Louise Reynolds Women’s Forum
Amy L. BentleyThe Good Woman Syndrome
Helen Candland StarkA Strenuous Business: The Achievement of Helen Candland Stark
Lavina Fielding AndersonToward a Feminist Interpretation of Latter-day Scripture
Lynn Matthews AndersonDialogue 27.2 (Summer 1994): 197–230
I am astonished that it took so many readings and a focus on the question of using gender-inclusive language in the simplified version to discover something that should have been obvious to me from the beginning: females scarcely figure or matter in our sacred books.
An Expanded Definition of Priesthood? Some Present and Future Consequences
Margaret WheatleyDialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 319–325
But the fact that we must look at organizational dynamics before we can begin to understand the issues that would be raised by expanding priesthood to include women is an apt commentary on the complex and sometimes confused role that priesthood authority has come to play in the modern church.
Mormon Women and Priesthood
Nadine HansenOn Being a Mormon Woman
Vicki Stewart Eastman“Dear Brethren” — Claiming a Voice in the Church
Carol Lynn PearsonCarol Lynn Pearson explains ways she has claimed a voice and encouraged others to do so.
Pioneers
Carol Lynn PearsonMidwest Pilgrims: We’re Still Here
Ann Gardner StonePlymouth Rock on the Mississippi
Rebecca ChandlerMy Short Happy Life with Exponent II
Claudia L. BushmanDialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 191–1933
Claudia Bushman and others reflect back on Exponent II.
Bodies, Babies, and Birth Control
Melissa ProctorDialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 159–175
In this paper I will explore official and unofficial messages that theLDS church has sent to girls and women about childbearing during the twentieth century and the effect those messages have had on women’sreproductive choices.
Temporal Love: Singing the Song of Songs
Molly BennionEternal Love
Carrie A. MilesHow My Mission Saved My Membership
Tania Rands LyonWhy I Didn’t Serve a Mission
Mary Ellen RobertsonJunior Companion
Holly WelkerSisterhaters
Teresa P. CarrMissions and the Rhetoric of Male Motivation
Allison G. Stimmler“Not Invite but Welcome”: The History and Impact of Church Policy on Sister Missionaries
Tania Rands LyonPresent at the Beginning: One Woman’s Journey
Barbara Higdon LyonDialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 99–193
On November 17,1985, many RLDS (now Community of Christ) congregations witnessed the sacrament of ordination to priesthood office.
Ordaining Women and the Transformation from Sect to Denomination
William D. RussellDialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 61–64
Over the past forty years the top leadership of the Community of Christ church (until recently the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ o f Latter -Day Saints) has gone through significant changes in religious thought. I have contended elsewhere that the decisive changes occurred in the 1960s.
“Kingdom of Priests”: Priesthood Temple and Women in the Old Testament and in the Restoration
Todd M. ComptonDialogue 36.3 (2003): 53-80
Compton considers priesthood as portrayed in Old Testament texts and how women are underrepresented in today’s discourse.
Saints for All Seasons: Lavina Fielding Anderson and Bernard Shaw’s Joan of Arc
Karen Marguerite MoloneyDoes Justice Rob Mercy? Retribution, Punishment, and Loving our Enemies
Janice M. AllredA Price Far above Rubies versus Eight Cows: What’s a Virtuous Woman Worth?
Holly WelkerMormon Women in the History of Second-Wave Feminism
Laurel Thatcher UlrichDialogue 43.2 (Fall 2010): 45–63
Mormon women weren’t passive recipients of the new feminism. We helped to create it.
Review: Negotiating the Paradoxes: Neylan McBaine’s Women at Church Neylan McBaine. Women at Church: Magnifying LDS Women’s Local Impact
Julie M. SmithReview: Empowerment at the Local Level Neylan McBaine. Women at Church: Magnifying LDS Women’s Local Impact
Lisa Torcasso DowningStandards Night
Ann CannonPornographic
Maren ChristiansenIn Light
Ashley Mae HoilandDialogue 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.
Mormon Priesthood Against the Meritocracy
Rosalynde WelchDialogue 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.
A Letter to My Mormon Daughter
Courtney J. KendrickDialogue 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.
Mormon Feminist Perspectives on the Mormon Digital Awakening: A Study of Identity and Personal Narratives
Nancy RossDialogue 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.
Mormon Feminism: The Next Forty Years
Joanna BrooksDialogue 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.
Dialogue Topic Pages Podcast #3: Feminism
(author)“My Indignation Has Got the Better of My Intention”: A Case Study in Latter-day Saint and “Gentile” Female Family Correspondence in Nineteenth-Century America
Bonnie YoungListen to the audio version of this piece here. Although members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints shared many values with their Christian neighbors, the differences between Mormons and non-Mormons during the…
In Defense of Heavenly Mother: Her Critical Importance for Mormon Culture and Theology
Margaret Merrill ToscanoDialogue 55.1 (Spring 2022): 37
Marginalizing God the Mother does not solve the problems raised by Mormonism’s doctrine of divine and human embodiment. It merely diminishes femaleness as a reflection of divinity. We do not need fewer images to understand God; we need more. Critics of Heavenly Mother have not fully grasped the negative consequences of moving toward a God beyond gender
Gendering Mormon Studies—At Last! Amy Hoyt and Taylor G. Petrey, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
Christine TalbotWomen’s and gender studies emerged out of the women’s and sexual liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, movements the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vigorously opposed. The so-called New Mormon History flourished around the same time, opening the field to new approaches
Fear, Faith, and Other F-Words
T BoydPodcast version of this piece. I’m sitting in the bishop’s office. My dress is slightly damp, but I can’t determine whether the moisture is a result of the snowstorm or sweat beading beneath the cotton.…
Unpacking Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Mormonism Taylor G. Petrey, Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
Alison HalfordInevitably at some point, due to structural white patriarchal privilege and a central and abiding concern with discrete gendered bodies and heteronormative relations, the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will…
Sisterhood and the Divine Feminine Twila Newey, Sylvia
Rebecca BatemanLike a mother opening her arms to embrace her children, the span of mountains and trees that look over my childhood home in Salt Lake City extend to the south and cradle also the homes…
Mette Harrison, The Women’s Book of Mormon: Volume One
Adam MclainLavina Fielding Anderson, Mercy Without End: Toward a More Inclusive Church
Claudia L. BushmanBeauty in the Irreversible Lisa Van Orman Hadley. Irreversible Things
Sarah Nickel MooreJudging by its length, Irreversible Things is the kind of book that I should have been able to finish in a couple hours. Perhaps one evening, after the kids had gone to bed, I could curl up…
The Gebirah and Female Power
Amber RichardsonTipping the Scales: LDS Women and Power in Recent Scholarship
Charlotte Hansen TerryA Rising Generation: Women in Power in Young Adult Novels Jo Cassidy. Good Girls Stay Quiet Emily King. Before the Broken Star Julie Berry. Lovely War
Katherine CowleyThe Order of Eve: A Matriarchal Priesthood
Kyra N. KrakosDialogue 53.1 (Spring 2020): 99–107
Elder Oaks clarified that priesthood is the authority and power of God. By extension, that must also be the authority and power of our Heavenly Mother. I decided to give it a name. Not the Order of Aaron, that great Old Testament wingman to Moses, or the Order of Melchizedek, mentor and life coach to Abraham, but the Order of Eve, a matriarchal priesthood, in honor of the mother of all living.
The Stories We Tell—And What They Tell Us
Heather SundahlThe Power of an Unbroken Woman
Joy Sitawa RichardsThe Other Crime: Abortion and Contraception in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Utah
Amanda Hendrix-KomotoDialogue 53.1 (Spring 2020): 33–47
In this essay, I discuss this history, present evidence that Latter-day Saint men sold abortion pills in the late nineteenth century, and argue that it is likely some Latter-day Saint women took them in an attempt to restore menstrual cycles that anemia, pregnancy, or illness had temporarily “stopped.” Women living in the twenty-first century are unable to access these earlier understandings of pregnancy because the way we understand pregnancy has changed as a result of debates over the criminalization of abortion and the development of ultrasound technology.
Feminism, Polygamy, and Murder John Bennion. An Unarmed Woman.
Helynne Hollstein HansenJohn Bennion’s work is set in the late 1880s and focuses on plural marriage through the lens of a murder mystery.
Roundtable: When Feminists Excommunicate
Mette Ivie HarrisonDialogue 50.1 (Spring 2017): 183–192
I am concerned about the ways in which I see patriarchy swallow up the demands of feminism and use them against women. Each time we gain som
Roundtable: Mormon Women and the Anatomy of Belonging
Neylan McBaineDialogue 50.1 (Spring 2017): 193–200
n looking at the definition of Mormon womanhood, it seems to me that the boundaries of that community have shifted over the past almost two hundred years from being initially proscribed by the institution, in the early days of the Nauvoo Relief Society, to essentially being defined by the Mormon women themselves in today’s modern global Church.
Roundtable: Shifting Boundaries of Feminist Theology: What Have We Learned?
Maxine HanksDialogue 50.1 (Spring 2017): 167–180
This tendency to rewrite Relief Society history continued from the
1850s into the 1990s.
A Double Portion: An Intertextual Reading of Hannah (1 Samuel 1–2) and Mark’s Greek Woman (Mark 7:24–30)
Julie M. SmithThe Physical Process of Creation
Carrel Hilton SheldonDiscovering the Woman’s Exponent
Susan Whitaker KohlerKey Turning Points in Exponent II’s History
Nancy Tate DredgeExponent II: Early Decisions
Claudia L. BushmanA Laurel’s First-Night Fantasies
Theric JepsonPossibility one, extrapolated from what Betty, second clarinet, said about what Tabitha, first clarinet, did last Saturday: They enter the hotel room, both of them shaking as only virgins can shake. Somehow he manages to…
Listening to Each Other: Religion, Feminism, and Freedom of Conscience: A Mormon/Humanist Dialogue Edited by George D. Smith
Florien J. WineriterA Mormon Mother: An Autobiography by Annie Clark Tanner
Charlotte Cannon JohnstonBiography of an Indian Latter-day Saint Women: Me and Mine: The Life Story of Helen Sekaquaptewa as told to Louise Udall
Grace F. ArringtonLyrics and Love in Orderville: A review of the music of The Orders is Love by Lex de Azevedo
A. Laurence LyonFiddlin’ Around in Orderville, or, A Mormon on the Roof: The Order is Love by Carol Lynn Pearson
Richard CracroftThe Mattress
Georgina Alvillar WibertThe Courtship
Patricia Rasmussen EatonSnowflake Girl
Louise Larson ComishTriad
Mary Lythgoe BradfordMy Temple
Blanche BerryThe Perennial Harlot
Blanche BerryFriends
Blanche BerryDevotion to Sam
Blanche BerryCanyon Country
Ina Jespersen HobsonMormon Country Women: With an Introduction by Gordon Thomasson
Dorothea LangeMother’s Day, 1971
Lucybeth RamptonDirt: A Compendium of Household Wisdom
Shirley GeeSingle Voices: Thoughts on Living Alone
Alberta BakerSingle Voices: A Candid and Uncensored Interview with a Mormon Career Girl
M. Karlynn HinmanSingle Voices: Journal Jottings
Dianne HigginsonSingle Voices: A Letter Home
AnonymousSomewhere Inbetween
Grethe Ballif PetersonBelle Spafford: A Sketch
JoAnn Woodruff BairA Survey of Women General Board Members
Dixie Snow HuefnerAll Children Are Alike Unto Me
Almera Anderson RomneyThe Mormon Woman and Priesthood Authority: The Other Voice
Cheryll MayAnd Woe Unto Them That Are With Child In Those Days
Laurel Thatcher UlrichDialogue 6.2 (Summer 1972): 40–47
It isn’t easy these days to be a Momon mother of four. In the university town where I live, fertility is tolerated but not encouraged. Every time I drive to the grocery store, bumper stickers remind me that Overpopulation Begins At Home, and I am admonished to Make Love, Not Babies. At church I have the opposite problem. My youngest is almost two and if I hurry off to Primary without a girdle, somebody’s sure to look suspiciously at my flabby stomach and start imagining things. Everybody else is pregnant, why not I?
Having One’s Cake and Eating It Too
Christine Meaders DurhamBlessed Damozels: Women in Mormon History
Leonard J. ArringtonI Married a Family
Juanita BrooksFull House
Jaroldeen Asplund EdwardsA Time of Decision
Judy DushkuMy Personal Rubicon
Eleanor Ricks ColtonMary Fielding Smith: Her Ox Goes Marching On
Lavina Fielding AndersonGetting Unmarried in a Married Church
Marybeth RaynesWomen and Ordination: Introduction to the Biblical Context
Anthony A. HutchinsonDialogue 14.4 (Winter 1981): 60–69
THE QUESTION of whether worthy women could be or ought to be ordained to the LDS priesthood has not, until recently, been considered seriously in the LDS community.
Women and Priesthood
Nadine HansenDialogue 14.4 (Winter 1981): 48–59
I smiled wryly at the cartoon on the stationery. The picture showed a woman standing before an all-male ecclesiastical board and asking, “Are you trying to tell me that God is not an equal opportunity employer?” I thought to myself, “Yes, that is precisely what women have been told for centuries.”
Mormon Women and the Struggle for Definition
Carol Cornwall MadsenDialogue 14.4 (Winter 1981): 40–47
I am sensitive to that steadying hand as I attempt to identify and define what for an earlier generation of women identified and defined them as women—their relationship to the Church.
The Pink Dialogue and Beyond
Laurel Thatcher UlrichDialogue 14.4 (Winter 1981): 28–39
Some time in June 1970,I invited a few friends to my house to chat about the then emerging women’s movement. If I had known we were about to make history, I would have taken minutes or at least passed a roll around, but of course I didn’t.
A Tribute to May Swenson
Veneta NielsenThe Mormon Woman as Writer
Phyllis BarberRescue from Home: Some Ins and Outs
Linda SillitoeSpeaking Out on Domestic Violence
Anne CastletonTheological Foundations of Patriarchy
Alison WalkerDialogue 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.
Woman as Healer in the Modern Church
Betina LindseyDialogue 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.
Comforting the Motherless Children: The Alice Louise Reynolds Women’s Forum
Amy L. BentleyThe Good Woman Syndrome
Helen Candland StarkA Strenuous Business: The Achievement of Helen Candland Stark
Lavina Fielding AndersonToward a Feminist Interpretation of Latter-day Scripture
Lynn Matthews AndersonDialogue 27.2 (Summer 1994): 197–230
I am astonished that it took so many readings and a focus on the question of using gender-inclusive language in the simplified version to discover something that should have been obvious to me from the beginning: females scarcely figure or matter in our sacred books.
An Expanded Definition of Priesthood? Some Present and Future Consequences
Margaret WheatleyDialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 319–325
But the fact that we must look at organizational dynamics before we can begin to understand the issues that would be raised by expanding priesthood to include women is an apt commentary on the complex and sometimes confused role that priesthood authority has come to play in the modern church.
Mormon Women and Priesthood
Nadine HansenOn Being a Mormon Woman
Vicki Stewart Eastman“Dear Brethren” — Claiming a Voice in the Church
Carol Lynn PearsonCarol Lynn Pearson explains ways she has claimed a voice and encouraged others to do so.
Pioneers
Carol Lynn PearsonMidwest Pilgrims: We’re Still Here
Ann Gardner StonePlymouth Rock on the Mississippi
Rebecca ChandlerMy Short Happy Life with Exponent II
Claudia L. BushmanDialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 191–1933
Claudia Bushman and others reflect back on Exponent II.
Bodies, Babies, and Birth Control
Melissa ProctorDialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 159–175
In this paper I will explore official and unofficial messages that theLDS church has sent to girls and women about childbearing during the twentieth century and the effect those messages have had on women’sreproductive choices.
Temporal Love: Singing the Song of Songs
Molly BennionEternal Love
Carrie A. MilesHow My Mission Saved My Membership
Tania Rands LyonWhy I Didn’t Serve a Mission
Mary Ellen RobertsonJunior Companion
Holly WelkerSisterhaters
Teresa P. CarrMissions and the Rhetoric of Male Motivation
Allison G. Stimmler“Not Invite but Welcome”: The History and Impact of Church Policy on Sister Missionaries
Tania Rands LyonPresent at the Beginning: One Woman’s Journey
Barbara Higdon LyonDialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 99–193
On November 17,1985, many RLDS (now Community of Christ) congregations witnessed the sacrament of ordination to priesthood office.
Ordaining Women and the Transformation from Sect to Denomination
William D. RussellDialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 61–64
Over the past forty years the top leadership of the Community of Christ church (until recently the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ o f Latter -Day Saints) has gone through significant changes in religious thought. I have contended elsewhere that the decisive changes occurred in the 1960s.
“Kingdom of Priests”: Priesthood Temple and Women in the Old Testament and in the Restoration
Todd M. ComptonDialogue 36.3 (2003): 53-80
Compton considers priesthood as portrayed in Old Testament texts and how women are underrepresented in today’s discourse.
Saints for All Seasons: Lavina Fielding Anderson and Bernard Shaw’s Joan of Arc
Karen Marguerite MoloneyDoes Justice Rob Mercy? Retribution, Punishment, and Loving our Enemies
Janice M. AllredA Price Far above Rubies versus Eight Cows: What’s a Virtuous Woman Worth?
Holly WelkerMormon Women in the History of Second-Wave Feminism
Laurel Thatcher UlrichDialogue 43.2 (Fall 2010): 45–63
Mormon women weren’t passive recipients of the new feminism. We helped to create it.
Review: Negotiating the Paradoxes: Neylan McBaine’s Women at Church Neylan McBaine. Women at Church: Magnifying LDS Women’s Local Impact
Julie M. SmithReview: Empowerment at the Local Level Neylan McBaine. Women at Church: Magnifying LDS Women’s Local Impact
Lisa Torcasso DowningStandards Night
Ann CannonPornographic
Maren ChristiansenIn Light
Ashley Mae HoilandDialogue 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.
Mormon Priesthood Against the Meritocracy
Rosalynde WelchDialogue 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.
A Letter to My Mormon Daughter
Courtney J. KendrickDialogue 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.
Mormon Feminist Perspectives on the Mormon Digital Awakening: A Study of Identity and Personal Narratives
Nancy RossDialogue 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.
Mormon Feminism: The Next Forty Years
Joanna BrooksDialogue 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.