Item Detail
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English
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Quoted at the Pulpit: Male Rhetoric and Female Authority in Fifty Years of General Conference
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Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Winter 2022
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55
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4
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1-40
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"This article argues such quotation choices [in general conference] reflect Church leaders’ views on authority. When the most powerful leaders in the Church use their limited time in the spotlight to highlight someone else’s words, they send a signal about how that source should be perceived. The quotation patterns in fifty years of general conference addresses reveal that, despite increasingly vocal commitments from Church leaders to the equal though separate status of women and men, those leaders continue to treat female voices as less authoritative than male ones. Church leaders quote men more than sixteen times for every one time they quote a woman. Even taking into account the expected effects of the Church’s overwhelmingly male scripture and all-male priesthood hierarchy, women are quoted less, cited less, and acknowledged less than one might expect from an organization whose president recently told women, 'We need your voice teaching the doctrine of Christ.' This article contends that their treatment of these voices is indicative of women’s status in the Church more broadly." [Author]
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