Item Detail
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30059
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Journal Article
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English
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McBride, Matthew S.
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"Female Brethren" : Gender Dynamics in a Newly Integrated Missionary Force, 1898-1915
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Journal of Mormon History
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October 2018
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44
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4
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Champaign, IL
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University of Illinois Press; Mormon History Association
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October 2018
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40-67
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[2019 Mormon History Association Winner for Best Article]
The first full-time proselytizing women were strangers in a strange land. Their arrival raised policy questions for mission presidents, provoked anxiety among male missionaries, and gave young
women a taste of missionary life with all its delights and dangers. This
article discusses the gendered implications of early Mormon mission
theory and compares it to Protestant models for women’s mission. It argues that the radical potential of Woodruff’s pragmatic 1898 policy change was quickly tempered by Mormon ideological commitments to complementary spheres for men and women. This tempering did not play out primarily at Church headquarters in Utah, but rather on the ground in the missions, as Mormon men and women worked together for the first time. The story of the integration of women into the Mormon missionary force illuminates the challenges faced by conservative institutions during the early twentieth century as they renegotiated the slipping boundaries between gendered spheres. [Author's Introduction] -
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