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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... Anointed Quorum " shows that at this same meeting , Joseph and Emma also became the first couple to receive the " second anointing " or " fullness of the priesthood . " By this ceremony they were each " anointed & ordained to the ...
... second anointing . 23 Of the relationship between the endowment's initiatory anoint- ing and the second anointing , Heber C. Kimball explained : " You have been anointed to be kings and priests [ or queens and priest- esses ] , but you ...
... second anointing for Joseph and Clarissa Young . Clayton's diary shows that he received only the first anointing in 1844 , and Heber C. Kimball's diary in December 1845 listed Clayton among the Anointed Quorum's members who had not yet ...
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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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