Dialogue Topic Pages Podcast #3: Feminism

Continuing the Dialogue Topics Podcast, Dialogue Editor Taylor Petrey walks us through the history of feminism in the pages of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. From the Pink Issue in Summer 1971 to fight for the Equal Rights Amendment to open conflict between feminists and patriarchs in the Church to Mormon feminism finding its foundation in the new millennium, the pages of Dialogue have been host to numerous and various thoughts on the matter of gender and women.
LINER NOTES
Act 1: Mormon Feminism Reborn

• The Pink Issue, Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 1971
• Summer 1972, Letters to the Editor responses to the Pink Issue
• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “Counseling the Brethren,” Summer 1974

 
Act 2: The Equal Rights Amendment

• Letters to the Editor, Spring 1980.
• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “The PInk Dialogue and Beyond,” Winter 1981.
• Interview with Beverly Campbell, Spring 1981.
• Mary L. Bradford, “The Odyssey of Sonia Johnson,” Summer 1981.
• An Interview with Sonia Johnson, Summer 1981.
• The Red Issue, Volume 14, Number 4, Winter 1981
• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “The Pink Dialogue and Beyond,” Winter 1981.
• Nadine Hansen, “Women and Priesthood,” Winter 1981.
• Anthony Hutchinson, “Women and Ordination: Introduction to the Biblical Context,” Winter 1981.
• Melodie Moench Charles, “LDS Women and Priesthood: Scriptural Precedents for Priesthood,” Fall 1985.
• Linda King Newell, “LDS Women and Priesthood: The Historical Relationship of Mormon Women and Priesthood,” Fall 1985.
• Meg Wheatley-Pesci, “LDS Women and Priesthood: An Expanded Definition of Priesthood: Some Present and Future Consequences,” Fall 1985. 
• Margaret Merrill Toscano, “Beyond Matriarchy, Beyond Patriarchy,” Spring 1988.
• Melodie Moench Charles, “The Need for a New Mormon Heaven,” Fall 1988.

 
Act 3: Open Conflict

• Alison Walker, “Theological Foundations of Patriarchy,” Fall 1990.
• Betina Lindsey, “Woman as Healer in the Modern Church,” Fall 1990.
• Helen Candland Stark, “The Good Woman Syndrome,” Fall 1990.
• Vella Neil Evans, “Mormon Women and the Right to Wage Work,” Winter 1990.
• Lavina Fielding Anderson, “The Grammar of Inequality,” Winter 1990.
• Letters to the Editor, Summer 1991, Spring 1991, and Fall 1991.
• Lola Van Wagonen, “In Their Own Behalf: The Politicization of Mormon Women and the 1870 Franchise,” Winter 1991.
• Julie J. Nichols, “The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives,” Summer 1992.
• Lavina Fielding Anderson, “The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology,” Spring 1993.
• Janice Allred, “Toward a Mormon Theology of God the Mother,” Summer 1994.
• Martha Sonntag Bradley, “‘Seizing Sacred Space’: Women’s Engagement in Early Mormonism,” Summer 1994.
• David Hall, “Anxiously Engaged: Amy Brown Lyman and Relief Society Charity Work, 1917–45,” Summer 1994.
• Lynn Matthews Anderson, “Toward a Feminist Interpretation of Latter-day Scripture,” Summer 1994.
• Margaret Merrill Toscano, “If Mormon Women Had the Priesthood Since 1843, Why Aren’t They Using It?” Summer 1994.
• Cecilia Konchar Farr, “Dancing through the Doctrine: Observations on Religion and Feminism,” Fall 1995.

 
Act 4: Mormon Feminism in the New Millennium

• Fall 2003 Issue
• Claudia Bushman, “My Short Happy Life with Exponent II,” Fall 2003.
• Melissa Proctor, “Bodies, Babies, and Birth Control,” Fall 2003.
• Kevin L. Barney, “How to Worship Our Mother in Heaven (Without Getting Excommunicated),” Winter 2008.
• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “Mormon Women in the History of Second-Wave Feminism,” Summer 2010.
• Neylan McBaine, “To Do the Business of the Church: A Cooperative Paradigm for Examining Gendered Participation Within Church Organizational Structure,” Fall 2012.
• Joanna Brooks, “Mormon Feminism: The Next Forty Years,” Winter 2014. 
• Nancy Ross and Jessica Finnigan, “Mormon Feminist Perspectives on the Mormon Digital Awakening: A Study of Identity and Personal Narratives,” Winter 2014.
• Courtney J. Kendrick, “A Letter to My Mormon Daughter,” Winter 2014.
• Rosalynde Welch, “Mormon Priesthood Against the Meritocracy,” Winter 2014.
• Ashmae Hoiland, “In Light,” Winter 2014.
• Cory Crawford, “The Struggle for Female Authority in Biblical and Mormon Tradition,” Summer 2015.
• Fiona Givens, “‘The Perfect Union of Man and Woman’: Reclamation and Collaboration in Joseph Smith’s Theology Making,” Spring 2016.
• Maxine Hanks, “Shifting Boundaries of Feminist Theology: What Have We Learned?” Spring 2017.
• Mette Ivie Harrison, “When Feminists Excommunicate,” Spring 2017.
• Neylan McBaine, “Mormon Women and the Anatomy of Belonging,” Spring 2017.
• Maxine Hanks, “LDS Women’s Authority and the Temple: A Feminist FHE Discussion with Maxine Hanks,” Spring 2019.
• Jody England Hansen, “Condemn Me Not,” Spring 2019.
• Kathryn Knight Sonntag, “The Mother Tree: Understanding the Spiritual Root of Our Ecological Crisis,” Spring 2019.
• Spring 2020 Issue, guest edited by Exponent II.
• Brittany Romanello, “Multiculturalism as Resistance: Latina Migrants Navigate U.S. Mormon Spaces,” Spring 2020.
• Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, “The Other Crime: Abortion and Contraception in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Utah,” Spring 2020.
• Emily Clyde Curtis, “Mormon Women in the Ministry,” Spring 2020.
• Barbara Christiansen, “Women in Workplace Power,” Spring 2020.

 
Other books and resources

• Joanna Brooks, Rachel Hunt Steenblick, and Hannah Wheelwright, eds., Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings.
• Dan Peterson, “Nephi and His Asherah,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies.
• Ordain Women
• Sunstone Magazine
• Roger Terry, “Authority and Priesthood in the LDS Church, Part 1: Definitions and Development,” Spring 2018.
• Roger Terry, “Authority and Priesthood in the LDS Church, Part 2: ORdinances, QUorums, Nonpriesthood Authority, Presiding, Priestesses, and Priesthood Bans,” Summer 2018.