Women and Mormonism : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives / edited by Kate Holbrook and Matthew Bowman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowman, Matthew Burton, editor.

Holbrook, Kate, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latter Day Saint women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, [Utah] : The University of Utah Press, 2016.

Summary:

How do women who are members of a predominantly male-led church experience personal agency in formal religious settings, in intimate relationships, and within themselves?From Jane Manning James, an African American woman who found empowerment and strength in Mormon ritual despite suffering exclusion based on her race, to contemporary church.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Figures and Tables

Introduction

Historical Methodology Perspectives

Mormon Women and the Problem of Historical Agency

Remember Me

Reexploring Mormon Women and Agency in the Context of Polygamy

Turning the Key

"We Baked a Lot of Bread"

Women and Mormon Authority

Historical Narrative Perspectives

Mormon Women's Agency and Changing Conceptions of the Mother in Heaven

Jane James's Agency

A Rough Stone from Nature's Quarry

A Wider Sphere of Action

"The Best Social Practice"

Contemporary Social Science Perspectives

LDS Women's Attitudes toward the Church

Mormon Women in Europe

Culture and Agency in Mormon Women's Lives

Mormon Women's Sexual Agency in Patriarchal Culture

Contemporary Personal Perspectives

Agency in the Lives of Contemporary LDS Women

My Book of Mormon Story

Filling the Page

Narrating Agency

Soul Sisters

A Mormon Woman's Journey in Sierra Leone

Acknowledgments

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-60781-478-1

OCLC:

975272134