Latter-day Saint women are not lacking counsel on their proper roles which are, of course, found exclusively within the Church and family. Such writings, appropriately authored by men, carefully detail how women are uniquely suited…
Dialogue 16.3 (Autumn 1983): 68–69
I would like to discuss teh social experience of historical Latter-day Saint single women in the context of five questions: (1) Does she have an acceptable reason for being single? (2) Can she provide for her own economic security? (3) What place does she occupy in her family of origin? (4) Can she contribute to her community in a way that she will be rewarded for? (5) What was the emotinoal life of a single women in past generations?
The Doctrine and Covenants contains extremely specific instructions concerning marriage for men:
In the celestial glory there are three heavens or degrees;
In this small room
the bishop sits like God
Himself
broad farmer face upon
Being married is one of the most important ideas within Mormon culture, emphasized almost to the exclusion of other states of being. Much like the moon that is visible only when reflecting the sun’s light,…
Between 1972 and 1982 I was part of the team of historians located in the Church Office Building under the direction of Leonard J. Arrington. It was a golden decade—a brief period of excitement and…
Did you know that James Brighouse has been, among others, Adam, Enoch, Michael, George Washington, and Joseph Smith? Did you know that Max E. Powers was in attendance at the grand council in heaven before…
With us, someone else’s genealogy ranks right up there with reading the tele phone directory or watching someone else’s home movies. Most Mormon family histories are about as much fun as funerals. Thus, it was…
This handsome volume immediately establishes itself as the definitive work on the Morrisite movement within Mormonism. A complete study of Joseph Morris and his followers has long been needed and LeRoy Anderson has filled the…
Dialogue 16.4 (Winter 1983): 154
Few scholars have studied the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and fewer still have studied its leaders.