Volume 53, No. 1

Spring 2020

In this issue, guest-edited by Exponent II, we asked women to write about claiming power. We hoped that writers would think creatively about the idea of power, including traditional forms of authority in an organizational hierarchy but also going beyond this sometimes-limiting definition. We wanted women to examine their engagement of power within their families, wards, workplaces, and selves. We were interested in the way Mormon women are using their power to empower other marginalized groups. Includes pieces by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Claudia Bushman, Amanda Hendrix-Komoto and many more. Plus art, poetry, and reviews.

Articles/Essays

Multiculturalism as Resistance: Latina Migrants Navigate U.S. Mormon Spaces

Brittany Romanello

The Other Crime: Abortion and Contraception in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Utah

Amanda Hendrix-Komoto

2020: Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, “The Other Crime: Abortion and Contraception in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Utah,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 53 No. 1 (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...

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Women’s Lived Experience as Authority: Antenarratives and Interactional Power as Tools for Engagement

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Mormon Women Claiming Power

Margaret Hemming Olsen

In the Garden of Babel

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The Nape of the Neck

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Mormon Women in the Ministry

Brittany Mangelson

2020: Emily Clyde Curtis, “Mormon Women in the Ministry,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 53 No. 1 (2020): 129-142. Interview with Brittany Mangelson who is a full-time minister for Community of Christ. She has a master of arts in religion from Graceland University and works as a social media seeker ministry...

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Women in Workplace Power

Barbara Christiansen

The Blessing I Took

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The Power of an Unbroken Woman

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The Stories We Tell—And What They Tell Us

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The Order of Eve: A Matriarchal Priesthood

Kyra N. Krakos

2020: Kyra N. Krakos, “The Order of Eve: A Matriarchal Priesthood,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 53 No. 1 (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...

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“For the Power is In Them”: Leonard Arrington and the Founders of Exponent II

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Women in Dialogue

Claudia L. Bushman

1971: Pink issue, especially Claudia’s introduction While to all outward appearances we had nothing to complain of, the first meeting was an impassioned exchange of frustrations, disappointments and confessions. We had expected some serious confrontations because all attending are not in complete agreement on various issues, and there were some. More notable,...

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