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FROM BUNKERVILLE TO BABYLON: JUANITA BROOKS AND PHYLLIS BARBER TELL THE STORY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY MORMON WOMEN’S SEXUAL TRAINING

Juanita Brooks (Quicksand and Cactus: A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier), and Phyllis Barber (How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir) reconstruct Mormon women’s sexual training during the mid- to late-twentieth century by narrating the story of their lives growing up in Nevada. Each autobiography illustrates the strained position of many Mormon women as …

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