Mormon Women's History

Beyond Biography
Herausgeber: Cope, Rachel; Erekson, Keith A.; Easton-Flake, Amy

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Produktbeschreibung

Mormon Women’s History: Beyond Biography demonstrates that the history and experience of Mormon women is central to the history of Mormonism and to histories of American religion, politics, and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9781611479645
• ISBN-10: 1611479649
• Artikelnr.: 49095187

Autorenporträt

Rachel Cope is associate professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University. Amy Easton-Flake is assistant professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University. Keith Erekson is director of the LDS Church History Library, associate member of the graduate faculty at The University of Texas at El Paso, and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Indiana Magazine of History. Lisa Olsen Tait is a historian and writer specializing in women's history at the LDS Church History Department.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
Rachel Cope
Chapter 1. Charting the Past and Future of Mormon Women's History
Keith A. Erekson
Chapter 2. Sifting Truth from Legend: Evaluating Sources for American
Indian Biography
through the Life of Sally Exervia Ward
Jenny Hale Pulsipher
Chapter 3. Silent Memories of Missouri: Mormon Women and Men and Sexual
Assault 
in Group Memory and Religious Identity
Andrea G. Radke-Moss
Chapter 4. Early Mormonism's Expansive Family and the Browett Women
Amy Harris 
Chapter 5. Poetry in the Woman's Exponent: Constructing Self & Society
Amy Easton-Flake 
Chapter 6. Aesthetic Evangelism, Artistic Sisterhood, and the Gospel of
Beauty: 
Mormon Women Artists at Home and Abroad, ca. 1890-1920
Heather Belnap Jensen
Chapter 7. Leah Dunford Witdsoe, Alice Merril Horne, and the Sacralization
of Artistic Taste in Mormon Homes, circa 1900
Josh E. Probert 
Chapter 8. Double Jeopardy in Pleasant Grove: The Gendered and Cultural
Challenges of 
Being a Danish Mormon Missionary Gras