This year marks the fifth anniversary of the founding of Ordain Women. As the Ordain Women executive board, we are excited about what the future holds as we implement a new organizational structure that emphasizes both individual and collective, local and global activism on women’s ordination and gender equality in Mormonism. This panel will not …
Speaker: Marina Capella
IN PRAISE OF GOOD WOMEN: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF MORMONISM’S ‘IDEAL’ WOMEN
The recent death and funeral of Marjorie Pay Hinckley occasioned many heartfelt tributes that praised not only the personal qualities for which she was valued, but also the qualities that Mormonism currently values, and subtly encourages, for all of its women. If David O. McKay and Emma Rae Riggs McKay were models of “eternal sweethearts” …