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Bowman, Matthew, Holbrook, Kate

Women and Mormonism : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Salt Lake City Utah

University of Utah Press

May 2016

384

"This engaging and seminal volume employs a variety of sources—vivid primary documents, candid surveys, and illuminating oral histories—to explore the perspectives of Latter-day Saint (LDS) women. The expansive approach of this essay collection highlights an assortment of individuals, viewpoints, and challenges that ultimately invigorate our understanding of women and religion." [PUBLISHER]

Women
Women, attitudes toward
Women, black
Women, personal narratives
Women, public life
Women, religiosity

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Mormon Women's History : Beyond Biography
Real Native Genius :
How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians
The Power of Godliness : Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology

"A Mother There" : A Survey of Historical Teachings about Mother in Heaven
"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation" : Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife
"As a bird sings" : Hannah Tapfield King, Poetess and Pioneer
"I Cannot Refrain from Testifying" : Edith Mary Turpin's Observations about Mormonism and Plural Marriage
"Is There No Blessing for Me?" Jane James's Construction of Space in Latter-day Saint History and Practice
"Pouring in Oil" : The Development of the Modern Mormon Healing Ritual
"The Last of the Old School" : Joseph F. Smith and Latter-day Saint Liturgy
"The Queen of Inventions" : The Sewing Machine Comes to Utah
"They Shall be Made Whole" : A History of Baptism for Health
"To Become White and Delightsome" : American Indians and Mormon Identity
'All Things Move in Order in the City' : The Nauvoo Diary of Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs
'Is There No Blessing for Me?' : The Relentless Jane Manning James
'Not to be Riten' : The Mormon Temple Rite as Oral Canon
'Unlocking the Door of the Gospel' : The Concept of 'Keys' in Mormonism
4 Zinas : A Story of Mothers and Daughters on the Mormon Frontier
A 'Salt of the Earth' Lady : Martha Cragun Cox
A Faded Legacy : Amy Brown Lyman and Mormon Women's Activism, 1872-1959
A Mormon Mother : An Autobiography of Annie Clark Tanner
A Pale Reflection : American Indian Images in Mormon Arts
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
A Schoolmarm All My Life : Personal Narratives from Frontier Utah
A Statistical Profile of Mormons : Health, Wealth, and Social Life
A Test of Faith : Jane Elizabeth James and the Origin of the Utah Black Community
A Typology of LDS Sociopolitical Worldviews
A Widow's Tale : The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
A Woman's View : Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
Across the Continent : A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax
Adoptive Sealing Ritual in Mormonism
All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
American Grace : How Religion Divides and Unites Us
Amy Brown Lyman and Social Service Work in the Relief Society
An Advocate for Women : the Public Life of Emmeline B. Wells, 1870-1920
An Introduction to Mormonism
Anxiously Engaged : Amy Brown Lyman and Relief Society Charity Work, 1917-45
Audacious Women : Early British Mormon Immigrants
Autobiographies of Mormon Pioneer Women
Battle for the Ballot : Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896
Before The Manifesto : The Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris
Between Revivalism and the Social Gospel : The Latter-day Saint Social Advisory Committee, 1916-1922
Blessed Damozels : Women in Mormon History
Border Crossings
Brigham Young : American Moses
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
By Our Rites of Worship : Latter-day Saint Views on Ritual in History, Scripture, and Practice
By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them : The World View Expressed in Mormon Folk Art
Called to Serve : The Prosocial Behavior of Active Latter-day Saints
Camilla : A Biography of Camilla Eyring Kimball
Can There Be A Second Harvest? : Controlling the Costs of Latter-day Saint Membership in Europe
Charities and Philanthropies . . . Woman's Work in Utah
Creating Space : How Mormon Women Reconcile Their Feminist Attitudes Within a Patriarchal Religion
Dangerous History : Laurel Ulrich and Her Mormon Sisters
Dear Ellen : Two Mormon Women and Their Letters
Defence of Polygamy, by a Lady in Utah : In a Letter to Her Sister in New Hampshire
Dimensions of Faith : A Mormon Studies Reader
Dry Kindling : A Political Profile of American Mormons
Early Mormon Priesthood Revelations : Text, Impact, and Evolution
Edward W. Tullidge and The Women of Mormondom
Eliza R. Snow : The Complete Poetry
Eliza R. Snow's 'Sketch of My Life'
Emma Lee
Emmeline B. Wells : 'Am I Not a Woman and a Sister'?
Ensign to the Nations : A History of the Church from 1846 to the Present
Eternal Man
Exploring Mormon Thought : The Attributes of God, Volume 1
Expose? of Polygamy : A Lady's Life Among the Mormons
Fanny Alger Smith Custer : Mormonism's First Plural Wife?
Female Ritual Healing in Mormonism
Female Sexual Agency in Patriarchal Culture : The Case of Mormon Women
Feminist Implications of Mormon Polygamy
From Home Service to Social Service : Amy Brown Lyman and the Development of Social Work in the LDS Church
From Men to Boys : LDS Aaronic Priesthood Offices, 1829-1996
Gathered in Time : Utah Quilts and their Makers, Settlement to 1950
Go Ye into all the World : The Growth and Development of Mormon Missionary Work
Guatemalan Hot/Cold Medicine and Mormon Words of Wisdom : Intercultural Negotiation of Meaning
Hearken, O Ye People : The Historical Setting for Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations
Images of Faith : Art of the Latter-day Saints
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
In Sacred Loneliness : The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
In Their Own Words : Women and the Story of Nauvoo
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Joseph Smith : the Prophet of the Restoration
Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed, 1842-1845
Journal of Discourses
Journal of Mary Ellen Kimball : Including a Sketch of Our History in This Valley
Journal of Mormon History
Journals, Volume 1 : 1832-1839
Journey to Zion : Voices from the Mormon Trail
Juanita Brooks : Mormon Woman Historian
LDS Family Ideals Versus the Equality of Women : Navigating the Changes Since 1957
Labor and the Construction of the Logan Temple, 1877-1884
Last Rites and the Dynamics of Mormon Liturgy
Launching Mormonism in the Pacific : The Voyage of the Timoleon
Lavina Fielding Anderson and the Power of a Church in Exile
Lengthen Your Stride : The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball
Letters of Catharine Cottam Romney, Plural Wife
Life Sketches of Orson Spencer and Others, and History of Primary Work
Looking West : Mormonism and the Pacific World
Lords of Creation : Polygamy, the Abrahamic Household, and Mormon Patriarchy
Lucy's Book : A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir
Lydia Knight's History
Material Culture : An Introduction and Guide to Mormon Vernacular
Modern Lysistratas : Mormon Women in the International Peace Movement, 1899-1939
Molly Mormons, Mormon Feminists and Moderates : Religious Diversity and the LDS Church
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormon Americana : A Guide to Sources and Collections in the United States
Mormon Enigma : Emma Hale Smith
Mormon Europeans or European Mormons? : An "Afro-European" View on Religious Colonization
Mormon Healer and Folk Poet : Mary Susannah Fowler's Life of 'Unselfish Service'
Mormon Midwife : The 1846-1888 Diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions
Mormon Odyssey : The Story of Ida Hunt Udall, Plural Wife
Mormon Polygamous Families : Life in the Principle
Mormon Sisters : Women in Early Utah
Mormon Women : Portraits and Conversations
Mormon Women Have Their Say : Essays from the Claremont Oral History Collection
Mormon Women and the Problem of Historical Agency
Mormon women's identity : the experiences of Hong Kong Chinese Mormon women


Mormonism : A Very Short Introduction
Mormonism Unvailed : Or, a Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion From Its Rise to the Present Time
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormonism in a European Catholic Region : A Contribution to the Social Psychology of LDS Converts
Mormonism's Adoption Theology : An Introductory Statement
Mormons and the Bible : The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
Mormons in America – Certain in Their Beliefs, Uncertain of Their Place in Society
Mormons in the United States 1990-2008: Socio-demographic Trends and Regional Differences
Mothers of the Prophets
Mrs Gardner's World: Scale in Mormon Women's Autobiographical Writing
New Perspectives in Mormon Studies : Creating and Crossing Boundaries
New Scholarship on Latter-Day Saint Women in the Twentieth Century : Selections From the Women's History Initiative Seminars, 2003-2004
No Place to Call Home : The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities
Not By Bread Alone : The Journal of Martha Spence Heywood, 1850-1856
On Mormon Masculinity
Out of the Black Patch : The Autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, Folk Musician, Artist, and Writer
Out of the closet and into the fire : the new Mormon historians' take on polygamy
Pansy's History : Margaret E.P. Gordon, 1866-1966
Patriarchs and Politics : The Plight of the Mormon Woman
Pedestals and Podiums : Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights
People of Paradox : A History of Mormon Culture
Pioneer Quilts
Plural Wife : The Life Story of Mabel Finlayson Allred
Polynesian Origins : More Word on the Mormon Perspective
Post-Manifesto Polygamy : The 1899-1904 Correspondence of Helen, Owen, and Avery Woodruff
Power from on High : The Development of Mormon Priesthood
Preserving the Record and Memory of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 1842-92
Quilts and Women of the Mormon Migrations
Recollections of Past Days : The Autobiography of Patience Loader Rozsa Archer
Relations of Rescue : The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939
Relief Society Birth and Death Rituals : Women at the Gates of Mortality
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Resolving Differences / Achieving Unity : Lessons from the History of the Relief Society
Rethinking Retrenchment : Course Corrections in the Ongoing Campaign for Respectability
Roots of the Reorganization : French Polynesia
Scenes and Incidents in Nauvoo
Seeking the Promised Land : Mormons and American Politics
Sister Saints
Sister-Wives and Suffragists : Polygamy and the Politics of Woman Suffrage, 1870-1896
Sisters and Little Saints : One Hundred Years of Primary
Sisters in Spirit : Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective
Sisters under the Skin : Utah's Mormon and Non-Mormon Women and Their Publications
Sisters' Lives, Sisters' Voices : Neglected Reorganized Latter Day Saint Herstories
Socio-histoire du mormonisme en France (1850-2005) : une étude historique et sociologique de l'implantation de l'Eglise de Jésus-Christ des Saints des Derniers Jours (les Mormons) en France, ainsi qu'en Suisse et Belgique francophones


Stories of Latter-day Saint Hymns
Sunbonnet Sisters : True Stories of Mormon Women and Frontier Life
Supporting Saints : Life Stories of Nineteenth-Century Mormons
Swell Suffering : A Biography of Maurine Whipple
Take Heed That Ye Be Not Deceived
The 'Leading Sisters' : A Female Hierarchy in Nineteenth Century Mormon Society
The Autobiography and Interview of Jane Elizabeth Manning James
The Autobiography of B. H. Roberts
The Book of Mormon Girl : A Memoir of an American Faith
The Covenant of the Chosen People :
The Spiritual Foundations of Ethnic Idenity in the Book of Mormon
The Emotional and Priestly Logic of Plural Marriage
The Essential Orson Pratt
The First Fifty Years of Relief Society : Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women's History
The Forms and the Power : The Development of Mormon Ritual Healing to 1847
The Historicity of the Book of Mormon
The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt : The Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer
The Journals of Addison Pratt
The Journals of William E. McLellin 1831-1836
The Last Shall Be First and the First Shall Be Last : Discourse and Mormon history
The Latter-Day Saint Experience in America
The Lee Letters
The Liberal Shall Be Blessed : Sarah M. Kimball
The Mormon Concept of Mother in Heaven : A Sociological Account of its Origins and Development
The Mormon Concept of a Mother in Heaven
The Mormon Culture of Salvation : Force, Grace, and Glory
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon People :
The Making of an American Faith
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846 : A Documentary History
The Need for a New Mormon Heaven
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow
The Relief Society, Its Meeting Halls, Granaries, Cooperative Stores & Its Impact on Nineteenth Century Utah
The Salt Lake City 14th Ward Album Quilt, 1857 : Stories of the Relief Society Women and Their Quilt
The Significance of 'O My Father' in the Personal Journey of Eliza R. Snow
The Songstress of Dernford Dale : The Life of Poetess, Diarist and Latter-day Saint Pioneer Hannah Tapfield King
The Sons of Lehi and the Seed of Cain : Racial Myths in Mormon Scripture and Their Relevance to the Pacific Islands
The Story of the Church
The Woman's Exponent : Forty-Two years of Speaking for Women
The Women of Mormondom
The new Mormon women's history
The women of Mormonism : Or, The story of polygamy as told by the victims themselves
To Do Something Extraordinary : Mormon Women and the Creation of a Usable Past


What the Church Means to People Like Me
Where Nothing Is Long Ago : Memories of a Mormon Childhood
White Roses on the Floor of Heaven : Mormon Women's Popular Theology
Why I Stay : The Challenges of Discipleship for Contemporary Mormons
Why a Mormon Won't Drink Coffee but Might Have a Coke : The Atheological Character of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Wife No. 19
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
Winter Quarters : The 1846-48 Life Writings of Mary Haskin Parker Richards
Women and Authority : Re-emerging Mormon Feminism
Women and the Priesthood : What One Mormon Woman Believes
Women as a Force in the History of Utah
Women at church : Magnifying LDS women's local impact

Women in Utah History : Paradigm or Paradox?
Women of Covenant : The Story of Relief Society
Women of Faith in the Latter Days : Volume 1, 1775-1820
Women of Faith in the Latter Days : Volume 2, 1821-1845
Women of Nauvoo
Women's Voices : An Untold History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Worth Their Salt : Notable but Often Unnoted Women of Utah
Worth Their Salt, Too : More Notable but Often Unnoted Women of Utah
You Shall Have My Word : Exploring the Text of the Doctrine and Covenants : The 41st Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
Young Woman's Journal