Feminism
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A Voice from the Past: The Benson Instructions for Parents
I must admit that the immediate reaction to the “Mothers” speech — largely negative in my immediate circle — caught me off guard. I was meeting with a group of women on the night that…
Toward a Feminist Interpretation of Latter-day Scripture
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…
Border Crossings
It happened again as I was walking through the New Hampshire woods with a woman I knew only slightly. We had been chatting amiably when the words “Mormon feminist” escaped my mouth. From the expression…
Dancing Through the Doctrine: Observations on Religion and Feminism
As American feminist thinkers and organizers, we’ve walked a long road since then, a road that has led us farther and farther away from religious discourse and Christian justification. Our reasons have been good: We…
“Dear Brethren” — Claiming a Voice in the Church
Carol Lynn Pearson explains ways she has claimed a voice and encouraged others to do so.
“A Style of Our Own”: Mormon Women and Modesty
Clothing has been the subject of scriptural injunctions and aperennial topic of Church leaders’ concern. Subtle changes inboth dress standards and rationales for modest dress in the latterhalf of the twentieth century reflect the LDS…
Mormon Women in the History of Second-Wave Feminism
Reading these books in relation to my own life taught me something I should already have known. Mormon women weren’t passive recipients of the new feminism. We helped to create it.