Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon FeminismMaxine Hanks Signature Books, 1992 - 460 Seiten Utah women today might be surprised to learn their grandmothers' views on feminist issues, according to Maxine Hanks. LDS Relief Society co-founder Sarah Kimball referred to herself as "a woman's rights woman, " while Bathsheba Smith was called on Relief Society mission in 1870 to preach equal rights for women. The society editorialized that females belonged not only "in the nursery" but also "in the library, the laboratory, the observatory." Sisters sent east to study medicine were assured that "when men see that women can exist without them, it will perhaps take a little of the conceit out of some of them." Temple officiators were called "priestesses, " Eliza R. Snow the "prophetess, " and women were discouraged from confessing to bishops on grounds that personal matters "should be referred to the Relief Society president and her counselors." Women were set apart as healers "with power to rebuke diseases." In addition, Mormon theology spoke reassuringly of a Mother God of the divinity of Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Eve. No wonder Relief Society president Emmeline B. Wells could write with confidence: "Let woman speak for herself; she has the right of freedom of speech. Women are too slow in moving forward, afraid of criticism, of being called unwomanly, of being thought masculine." |
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... female priesthood and Mother in Heaven , as in the writings of Margaret Toscano ; social science and historical evaluations of Mormon women , as in the research of Marie Corn- wall and Jessie Embry ; and post - modern feminist ...
Re-emerging Mormon Feminism Maxine Hanks. The legacy of women's spiritual gifts in the Mormon tradition still operates to produce for a significant minority of Mormon women a positive and powerful expression of natural female spiritual ...
Re-emerging Mormon Feminism Maxine Hanks. ( Summer 1981 ) : 276-90 ; Carol Cornwall Madsen , " Mormon Women and the Struggle for Definition : The Nineteenth Century Church , " Sunstone 6 ( Nov. - Dec . 1981 ) : 7-11 , reprinted in ...
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The Mormon Concept of a Mother in Heaven | 3 |
The Historical Relationship of Mormon Women | 23 |
Empowerment and Mormon Womens | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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