The Sisterhood: Inside the Lives of Mormon Women

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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0230611400
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sisterhood: Inside the Lives of Mormon Women by : Dorothy Allred Solomon

Download or read book The Sisterhood: Inside the Lives of Mormon Women written by Dorothy Allred Solomon and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many hold a deep fascination with Mormonism but erroneously think of it as a secret religion that celebrates polygamy and confinement. Most outsiders regard Latter-day Saint women as submissive and pitiable. In The Sisterhood, award-winning author Dorothy Allred Solomon takes us inside the lives of women of the faith. She focuses on the roles of Mormon women in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, including fascinating personal stories about family, children, and husbands. She takes us into the lives of the High Priestesses of the Church, draws on histories sustained by the most thorough genealogical records in the world, and addresses the wives of polygamists. The Sisterhood sheds light on an expanding and complex religion and offers a long overdue portrait of Mormonism and women.

Sisters in Spirit

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062964
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Book Synopsis Sisters in Spirit by : Maureen Ursenbach Beecher

Download or read book Sisters in Spirit written by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of essays about Mormon women, all written and edited by scholars who are themselves Mormon women, is a brave and important work. Readers will fully appreciate just how brave and important it really is, however, if they can see how this work of historical theology fits into the history of historical writing about Mormon women, as well as how it fits into Mormon history itself. "The women who contributed to this book are among the best of the Mormon literati . . . they] hold that there is hope within the church for change, for reform, for expansion of the place of women." -- Women's Review of Books "Historians of women in America have a great deal to learn from the history of Mormon women. This fine set of essays provides an excellent introduction to a subject about which we should all know more." -- Anne Firor Scott, author of Making the Invisible Woman Visible.

Sister Saints

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190221321
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Book Synopsis Sister Saints by : Colleen McDannell

Download or read book Sister Saints written by Colleen McDannell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The specter of polygamy haunts Mormonism. More than a century after the practice was banned, it casts a long shadow that obscures people's perceptions of the lives of today's Latter-day Saint women. Many still see them as second-class citizens, oppressed by the church and their husbands, and forced to stay home and take care of their many children. Sister Saints offers a history of modern Mormon women that takes aim at these stereotypes, showing that their stories are much more complex than previously thought. Women in the Utah territory received the right to vote in 1870-fifty years before the nineteenth amendment-only to have it taken away by the same federal legislation that forced the end of polygamy. Progressive and politically active, Mormon women had a profound impact on public life in the first few decades of the twentieth century. They then turned inward, creating a domestic ideal that shaped Mormon culture for generations. The women's movement of the 1970s sparked a new, vigorous-and hotly contested-Mormon feminism that divided Latter-day Saint women. By the twenty-first century more than half of all Mormons lived outside the United States, and what had once been a small community of pioneer women had grown into a diverse global sisterhood. Colleen McDannell argues that we are on the verge of an era in which women are likely to play a greater role in the Mormon church. Well-educated, outspoken, and deeply committed to their faith, these women are defying labels like liberal and conservative, traditional and modern. This deeply researched and eye-opening book ranges over more than a century of history to tell the stories of extraordinary-and ordinary-Latter-day Saint women with empathy and narrative flair.

Mormon Women’s History

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611479657
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Book Synopsis Mormon Women’s History by : Rachel Cope

Download or read book Mormon Women’s History written by Rachel Cope and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mormon Women’s History: Beyond Biography demonstrates that the history and experience of Mormon women is central to the history of Mormonism and to histories of American religion, politics, and culture. Yet the study of Mormon women has mostly been confined to biographies, family histories, and women’s periodicals. The contributors to Mormon Women’s History engage the vast breadth of sources left by Mormon women—journals, diaries, letters, family histories, and periodicals as well as art, poetry, material culture, theological treatises, and genealogical records—to read between the lines, reconstruct connections, recover voices, reveal meanings, and recast stories. Mormon Women’s History presents women as incredibly inter-connected. Familial ties of kinship are multiplied and stretched through the practice and memory of polygamy, social ties of community are overlaid with ancestral ethnic connections and local congregational assignments, fictive ties are woven through shared interests and collective memories of violence and trauma. Conversion to a new faith community unites and exposes the differences among Native Americans, Yankees, and Scandinavians. Lived experiences of marriage, motherhood, death, mourning, and widowhood are played out within contexts of expulsion and exile, rape and violence, transnational immigration, establishing “civilization” in a wilderness, and missionizing both to new neighbors and far away peoples. Gender defines, limits, and opens opportunities for private expression, public discourse, and popular culture. Cultural prejudices collide with doctrinal imperatives against backdrops of changing social norms, emerging professional identities, and developing ritualization and sacralization of lived religion. The stories, experiences, and examples explored in Mormon Women’s History are neither comprehensive nor conclusive, but rather suggestive of the ways that Mormon women’s history can move beyond individual lives to enhance and inform larger historical narratives.

Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions [2 volumes]

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions [2 volumes] by : Susan de-Gaia

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions [2 volumes] written by Susan de-Gaia and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference offers reliable knowledge about women's diverse faith practices throughout history and prehistory, and across cultures. Across the span of human history, women have participated in world-building and life-sustaining cultural creativity, making enormous contributions to religion and spirituality. In the contemporary period, women have achieved greater equality, with more educational opportunities, female role models in public life, and opportunities for religious expression than ever before. Contemporaneously with this increased visibility, women are actively and energetically engaging with religion for themselves and for their communities. Drawing on the expertise of a range of scholars, this reference chronicles the religious experiences of women across time and cultures. The book includes sections on major religions as well as on spirituality, African religions, prehistoric religions, and other broad topics. Each section begins with an introduction, followed by reference entries on specialized subjects along with excerpts from primary source documents. The entries provide numerous suggestions for further reading, and the book closes with a detailed bibliography.

Gender and Women's Leadership

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Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412960835
Total Pages : 1105 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender and Women's Leadership by : Karen O'Connor

Download or read book Gender and Women's Leadership written by Karen O'Connor and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 1105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes provide an authoritative reference resource on leadership issues specific to women and gender, with a focus on positive aspects and opportunities for leadership in various domains.

A House Full of Females

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307742121
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis A House Full of Females by : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Download or read book A House Full of Females written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History, and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and determination. A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never-before-told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage," whose right to vote in the state of Utah was given to them by a Mormon-dominated legislature as an outgrowth of polygamy in 1870, fifty years ahead of the vote nationally ratified by Congress, and who became political actors in spite of, or because of, their marital arrangements. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, writing of this small group of Mormon women who've previously been seen as mere names and dates, has brilliantly reconstructed these textured, complex lives to give us a fulsome portrait of who these women were and of their "sex radicalism"--the idea that a woman should choose when and with whom to bear children.

Exposé of Polygamy

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Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 0874217148
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis Exposé of Polygamy by : Fanny Stenhouse

Download or read book Exposé of Polygamy written by Fanny Stenhouse and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the 1872 publication of Expose',Fanny Stenhouse became a celebrity in the cultural wars between Mormons and much of America. An English convert, she had grown disillusioned with the Mormon Church and polygamy, which her husband practiced before associating with a circle of dissident Utah intellectuals and merchants. Stenhouse’s critique of plural marriage, Brigham Young, and Mormonism was also a sympathetic look at Utah’s people and honest recounting of her life. Before long, she created a new edition, titled "Tell It All," which ensured her notoriety in Utah and popularity elsewhere but turned her thoughtful memoir into a more polemical, true expose' of Polygamy. Since 1874, it has stayed in print, in multiple, varying editions. The original book, meanwhile, is less known, though more readable. Tracing the literary history of Stenhouse’s important piece of Americana, Linda DeSimone rescues an important autobiographical and historical record from the baggage notoriety brought to it.

America's Religions

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025207551X
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis America's Religions by : Peter W. Williams

Download or read book America's Religions written by Peter W. Williams and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic introduction to religion in America, newly revised and updated

On Fire in Baltimore

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ISBN 13 : 9781589587229
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Book Synopsis On Fire in Baltimore by : Laura Rutter Strickling

Download or read book On Fire in Baltimore written by Laura Rutter Strickling and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These women of color tell stories of drug addiction and rape, of nights spent in jail and days looking for work, of single motherhood and grief for lost children. They share how they reconcile their membership in a historically White church that once denied them full membership.

Women of Principle

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195120701
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Book Synopsis Women of Principle by : Janet Bennion

Download or read book Women of Principle written by Janet Bennion and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an in-depth study of the female experience in one Mormon polygynous community, the Apostolic United Brethren. Women in such rigid, patriarchal religious groups are commonly portrayed as the oppressed, powerless victims of male domination. Janet Bennion shows, however, that the reality is far more complex. Many women converts are attracted to this group, and they are much more likely than male converts to remain there. Often these women are seeking improved socio-economic status for themselves and their children, as well as an escape from their marginalized status in the mainstream Mormon church. In the polygynous group women experience rapid assimilation, autonomy, and upward mobility. Bennion supports her study with narratives from the lives of women now living in the group--narratives that clearly reveal why many mainstream Mormon women are viewing polygyny as a viable alternative to the difficulties to single-motherhood, "spinsterhood," poverty, and emotional deprivation.

Wife No. 19

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
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Book Synopsis Wife No. 19 by : Ann Eliza Young

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More Wives Than One

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252026812
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)

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Book Synopsis More Wives Than One by : Kathryn M. Daynes

Download or read book More Wives Than One written by Kathryn M. Daynes and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Wives Than One offers an in-depth look at the long-term interaction between belief and the practice of polygamy, or plural marriage, among the Latter-day Saints. Focusing on the small community of Manti, Utah, Kathryn M. Daynes provides an intimate view of how Mormon doctrine and Utah laws on marriage and divorce were applied in people's lives.

Women In Utah History

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Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 0874215161
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis Women In Utah History by : Patricia Lyn Scott

Download or read book Women In Utah History written by Patricia Lyn Scott and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A project of the Utah Women’s History Association and cosponsored by the Utah State Historical Society, Paradigm or Paradox provides the first thorough survey of the complicated history of all Utah women. Some of the finest historians studying Utah examine the spectrum of significant social and cultural topics in the state’s history that particularly have involved or affected women.

Female Life Among the Mormons, by the Wife of a Mormon Elder [M. Ward], Recently From Utah

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Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019494295
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Female Life Among the Mormons, by the Wife of a Mormon Elder [M. Ward], Recently From Utah by : Maria Ward

Download or read book Female Life Among the Mormons, by the Wife of a Mormon Elder [M. Ward], Recently From Utah written by Maria Ward and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the fascinating and often controversial world of Mormonism through the eyes of a female insider. Based on her own experiences, Maria Ward provides a candid and detailed look at the lives of Mormon women and the role they play in the church and community. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history and culture of the Mormon Church. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Diary of Two Mad Black Mormons

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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The Women of Mormonism; Or The Story of Polygamy as Told by the Victims Themselves

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
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Book Synopsis The Women of Mormonism; Or The Story of Polygamy as Told by the Victims Themselves by : Jennie Anderson Froiseth

Download or read book The Women of Mormonism; Or The Story of Polygamy as Told by the Victims Themselves written by Jennie Anderson Froiseth and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: