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English
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From Bunkerville to Babylon : Juanita Brooks and Phyllis Barber Tell the Story of Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Sexual Training
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Sunstone
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December 2004
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135
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Sunstone Education Foundation
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28-37
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Laura Bush comments on the early sexual training of LDS women through the writings of Juanita Brooks and Phyllis Barber. She reviews excerpts from Quicksand and Cactus (Juanita Brooks's memoir) and How I Got Cultured, by Phyllis Barber. Juanita Brooks describes unwanted advances from men, and an incident concerning a girl and several boys at Dixie Junior College in St. George. Phyllis Barber talks about being in a dancing group in high school and some early clothes modeling experiences. Bush concludes that Mormonism sends mixed messages about being a woman