Women and Authority: Introductory material (Part deux)
See the previous discussion on this topic here. Some individual points we found interesting this time around: Stephanieeeeee – 1. At last, a concise, easy-to-read summary of the various waves of...
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Women and Authority – Chapter One: The Mormon Concept of a Mother in Heaven
See the previous discussion on this topic here. Researching our Mother in Heaven in a formidable, exhausting undertaking. Essay after essay kept materializing before our eyes until our minds felt...
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Women and Authority – Chapter Two: The Historical Relationship of Mormon...
See the previous discussion on this chapter here. Finally, a topic rarely written about on this site, women and priesthood… It’s not like it’s here, here, here, here, and here, and that’s just like,...
View ArticleWomen and Authority – Chapter Three: Empowerment and Mormon Women’s...
HeatherP’s excellent synopsis of Chapter Three is here. Some points we found interesting: Between 1872 and 1970, Mormon women had access to two official Church magazines offering specific views...
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Women and Authority – Chapter Four: Historic Mormon Feminist Discourse –...
HeatherP’s previous summary of Chapter Four is here. This chapter is a collection of excerpts from the Woman’s Exponent, Exponent II, the Alice Louise Reynold/Algie Ballif Forum, Mormons for ERA, the...
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Women and Authority – Chapter Five: An Expanded Definition of Priesthood?:...
The previous summary of Chapter Five is here. In this chapter the author uses an organizational dynamics business-like model/approach to ask and answer several questions that peeked my curiosity and...
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Women and Authority – Chapter Six: Mormon Women as “Natural” Seers – An...
By Stephanieeeeeee The previous discussion of Chapter Six is here. Yet again, we see a familiar pattern emerge: women wield some power/authority quite freely in the early church only to have it...
View ArticleWomen & Authority – Chapter 7: Non-Hierarchical Revelation
By Stephanieeeeeee (who is filling in for Lula while she wields her non-hierarchical superpowers at Girls’ Camp), The first time my husband heard, “When our leaders speak, the thinking has been done”...
View ArticleWomen and Authority, Chapter 8 – Let Women No Longer Keep Silent in Our...
by: Lula and Stephanieeeeeee (Penitent Women and Authority slackers that we are, we promised we’d get back on the review wagon, pronto, lest we suffer death by feminist Lisa firing squad!) We don’t...
View ArticleWelcome Maxine Hanks! Revisiting Women and Authority – The 20th Year Anniversary
In 1992, Women and Authority reclaimed Mormon feminism in word, history, and theology. 20 years later this collection of feminist voices is less controversial, yet still compelling. We are proud here...
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