Item Detail
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33150
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12
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English
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Mormon Literature and Gender
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Routledge Handbook of Mormonism
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London
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Routledge
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258-270
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"While the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was (and continues to be) a top-down patriarchal organization, while the culture and theology were disseminated through the universalist male lens, and while those things most valued were male-centric history, experience, and voice, the real work of creation—of enlarging one’s sphere, expanding identity, and elevating the human condition—was the work of early Mormon women.
"The women who took up a pencil to write during the Foundational and Home Literature periods created themselves inside of Mormonism, inside a theology and culture that also maintained the separate spheres of Victorian gender construction. These female writers, deeply committed to their church and its patriarchal scaffolding and deeply committed to practices such as polygamy that appeared to the world to restrict and confine them, wrote for themselves identity, space, and opportunity that not only undergirded the entire Mormon experiment but also allowed them to construct their own reality of what it was to be a Mormon woman." [Author]
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A Survey of Early Mormon Fiction
At the Pulpit : 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women
Eliza R. Snow : The Complete Poetry
Emmeline B. Wells : 'Am I Not a Woman and a Sister'?
Gender in Mormon Studies : Obstacles and Opportunities
Lucy's Book : A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir
Mormon Americana : A Guide to Sources and Collections in the United States
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormon Literature : Progress and Prospects
Preaching the Gospel of Church and Sex : Mormon Women's Fiction in the Young Woman's Journal, 1889-1910
Representative Mormon Short Stories 1890 to 1940 : Evolution of Sentimentalism Toward Realism
The First Fifty Years of Relief Society : Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women's History