Mormon women's history : beyond biography / edited by Rachel Cope. - Madison ; Teaneck : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Mormon studies series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / Charting the past and future of Mormon women's history / Sifting truth from legend : evaluating sources for American Indian biography through the life of Sally Exervia Ward / Silent memories of Missouri : Mormon women and men and sexual assault in group memory and religious identity / Early Mormonism's expansive family and the Browett women / Poetry in The Woman's Exponent : constructing self and society / Aesthetic evangelism, artistic sisterhood, and the gospel of beauty : Mormon women artists at home and abroad, circa 1890-1920 / Leah Dunford Witdsoe, Alice Merril Horne, and the sacralization of artistic taste in Mormon homes, circa 1900 / Double jeopardy in Pleasant Grove : the gendered and cultural challenges of being a Danish Mormon missionary grass widow in territorial Utah / Kings and queens of the kingdom : gendering the Mormon theological narrative / Individual lives, broader contexts : Mormon women's studies and the refashioning of American history and historiography / Rachel Cope -- Keith A. Erekson -- Jenny Hale Pulsipher -- Andrea G. Radke-Moss -- Amy Harris -- Amy Easton-Flake -- Heather Belnap Jensen -- Josh E. Probert -- Julie K. Allen -- Benjamin E. Park -- R. Marie Griffith.



9781611479652

2017042056


Mormon women--History.
Mormon Church--Historiography.


Electronic Books.

BX8643 / .M676 2017