Feminists often face challenges from people who lack a basic understanding of feminist ideas, rely on assumptions about feminism rather than facts, or are hostile to feminist thought. What happens when religious feminists confront these kinds of attitudes and challenges—not from outsiders—but from within the ranks of their own religious communities? Panelists will discuss their …
Speaker: Caroline Kline
Mormonism, Desire, And Popular Romance: Constructions Of Gender, Relationships, And Power
Romantic fiction comprises 25% of books sold in the US; its readers represent a diverse group. Popularity notwithstanding, the genre is regularly challenged as trashy and prurient and for reinforcing the limitations of raditional gender roles. This panel will examine what the themes, trends, and traits of the genre and its readership help reveal about …
SW10001: LDS Women in the Twentieth Century: Witnesses to a Changing Church
This session features excerpts from Claremont Oral History Program interviews begun in 2009 to record and preserve the voices of Mormon women. Sponsored by the Singer Foundation, the project aims for 100 extensive transcribed interviews that deal with personal biography, attitudes toward LDS women’s issues, and Church experience. The interviews are conducted by Mormon Studies …
SL10362: Panel: The Mormon Feminist Community of Exponent II: Its History, Its Legacy, Its Future
This session will explore what Exponent II has meant to Mormon women over the years, what it has achieved, and how it has evolved since it published its first issue in the early 1970s. Panelists will also discuss their vision of the organization’s future as it works to reach out to a new generation of …
SL10391: LDS Women in the Twentieth Century: Witnesses to a Changing Church
This session features excerpts from Claremont Oral History Program interviews begun in 2009 to record and preserve the voices of Mormon women. Sponsored by the Singer Foundation, the project aims to collect 100 extensive transcribed interviews that deal with personal biography, attitudes toward LDS women’s issues, and Church experience. The interviews are conducted by Mormon …