Item Detail
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30062
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English
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Buttons, Banners, and Pie : Mormon Women's Grassroots Movements : "Equality Yes, ERA No" versus "Another Mormon for ERA"
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Journal of Mormon History
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October 2018
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44
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Champaign, IL
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University of Illinois Press; Mormon History Association
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112-137
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Political buttons and banners revealed two warring factions of Latter-day Saint women. While they shared racial, class, and religious identities during the late 1970s and early 1980s, they held seemingly diametrically opposed views about the Equal Rights Amendment. Interestingly, buttons and banners also demonstrate that both pro-ERA and anti-ERA Mormon advocates claimed to believe in equality. The battle over the ERA was not only a war over the amendment itself, it became a war over the term “equality.” Pro-ERA women conceptualized equality as men and women equal under the law. Anti-ERA advocates conceptualized equality in more flexible terms to mean at times equal under the law and other times to allow for protective legislation for women. Both sides thought the other’s idea of equality was a fallacy and that their vision was the best for women. Although
they conceptualized equality in different ways, both sides understood it to mean that women would be free of constraints on their choices, regardless of what those choices meant concerning family, life, and career.
[Author's Introduction] -
From Housewife to Heretic
Mormonism and the Equal Rights Amendment
Pedestals and Podiums : Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights
'The ERA is a Moral Issue' : The Mormon Church, LDS Women, and the Defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment
The 'Old Right' in Action : Mormon and Catholic Involvement in an Equal Rights Amendment Referendum
The Pink Dialogue and Beyond
The Silent Majority : Conservative Perception, Mobilization, and Rhetoric at the Utah State International Women's Year Conference