UNQUIETING WOMEN’S VOICES IN THE GENERAL MEMBERSHIP OF THE LDS CHURCH and MOLLY MORMONS CAN BE REIKI MASTERS, TOO Many LDS women unnecessarily place self-imposed restrictions on their roles, rights, and responsibilities by inferring limitations on their behavior that do not actually appear in Church doctrine or policy. Men and women have different roles and responsibilities within the church but equal responsibility to gain the skills and knowledge necessary for full participation in public church life. Through authoritative self-definition and expression, increased recognition, respect for the diversity of women’s experience, and validation of female independence, the oversimplified conceptions of “women’s role” in the Church could be broadened to be much more substantial, and women’s doctrinal reliances could be focused more inwardly.

CHELSEA WHEELER-WHITBY and DOE DAUGHTREY