Item Detail
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29945
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English
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Why Shouldn't Mormon Women Want This Priesthood?
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Women and Authority : Re-emerging Mormon Feminism
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Salt Lake City
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Signature Books
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353-4
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Historically Mormon men and women have engaged in discussions and disagreements about whether or not women may exercise priesthood. Within the past decade Mormon writers and theorists have raised the issue of female ordination to the priesthood. One recurring argument has been that women are as deserving and qualified as are men to hold and exercise priesthood. A basic assumption in most of these discussions has been that Mormon women want Melchizedek priesthood. [From the text]