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English
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Transformations of Power : Mormon Women's Visionary Narratives
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Latter-day Lore : Mormon Folklore Studies
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Salt Lake City
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University of Utah Press
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215-223
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Folklorists concerned with examining folk religious traditions in terms of their symbolic promotion of feminine reproductive goals and values must first come to terms with the fact that many of the institutionalized religious systems within which such folk traditions flourish are primarily or exclusively patriarchal. One dimension of that institutional religion/folk tradition interactive matrix deserves particular attention: when feminine reproductive goals and values are usurped by the patriarchy itself, reproduction becomes the very cornerstone of the patriarchal religious system. [From the text]