Ebook {Epub PDF} Women and Authority: Re-Emerging Mormon Feminism by Maxine Hanks

Mormon women today might be surprised to learn about their foremothers' views on feminist theology and women's issues, according to Maxine Hanks. In , founder Joseph Smith foresaw the LDS Women's Relief Society as "a kingdom of Priests," that he "would ordain them to preside over the society just the Presidency preside over the church." Originally, the LDS Women's Relief Society . Women and Authority Re-emerging Mormon Feminism Maxine Hanks, editor. on the cover: “Long overdue, Maxine Hanks’s collection of feminist essays examines the Mormon experience from a different angle, and suggests once more that women view the world differently from men. Setting aside Mormonism’s preoccupation with male-oriented, tradition-bound history and theology, these essays . Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism THIS BLOG IS AN "EDITOR'S CUT" VERSION OF THE BOOK WOMEN AND AUTHORITY: RE-EMERGING MORMON FEMINISM (). IT PROVIDES LINKS TO THE PUBLISHED BOOK CHAPTERS, PLUS INFO ABOUT THE BOOK, RELATED MATERIALS REVIEWS, AND LINKS TO OTHER ARTICLES INTENDED FOR .

Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, MAXINE HANKS, ed. Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, ANNE FIROR SCOTT. Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, Hanks, Maxine Book Title. Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism Publication Place. Salt Lake City Publisher. Signature Books Publication Date. Relief Society, to the Present A Faded Legacy: Amy Brown Lyman and Mormon Women's Activism, A Good Social Work: Women's Clubs. Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism is a marvelous anthology of articles and excerpts about Mormon women and authority. Editor Maxine Hanks defined her purpose as compiling much of the best of Mormon feminist writing from all periods, so that modern Mormon women, unaware of what had been said before, could stop covering the same ground.

Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism THIS BLOG IS AN "EDITOR'S CUT" VERSION OF THE BOOK WOMEN AND AUTHORITY: RE-EMERGING MORMON FEMINISM (). IT PROVIDES LINKS TO THE PUBLISHED BOOK CHAPTERS, PLUS INFO ABOUT THE BOOK, RELATED MATERIALS REVIEWS, AND LINKS TO OTHER ARTICLES INTENDED FOR INCLUSION. Then she was accused of apostasy for editing an anthology, Women and Authority: Re-Emerging Mormon Feminism, which included a discussion of the all-male LDS priesthood and women's relationship to. Maxine Hanks, ed., Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism (Salt Lake City: Signa-ture Books, ) pp., $ "Long-awaited" doesn't begin to describe Women and Authority, a book eagerly anticipated since first an-nounced over two years ago, and whose delay puzzled even many of those intimately involved in its produc-tion.