Item Detail
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29056
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1
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English
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Border Crossings
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Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
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27
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2
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7 pages
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"IT HAPPENED AGAIN AS I WAS WALKING through the New Hampshire woods with a woman I knew only slightly. We had been chatting amiably when the words 'Mormon feminist' escaped my mouth. From the expression on her face, I knew exactly what she was going to say. 'Mormon feminist! That sounds like an oxymoron!'... He is right. I am not an oxyMormon. I am a Mormon. And a feminist. As a daughter of God, I claim the right to all my gifts. I am a mother, an intellectual, a skeptic, a believer, a crafter of cookies and words... Those who assume Mormonism is inherently hostile to women or, conversely, that feminism undermines faith, sniff at the phrase. But when confronted with a real person claiming to be both things at once, they are forced to reconsider their assumptions. Feminism may be larger than they imagined and Mormonism more flexible." -[EXCERPTS FROM ARTICLE]