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Defecting In Place: Women Claiming Responsibility For Their Own Spiritual Lives (Book Review), Christel Manning

Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Book review by Christel Manning.

Winter, Miriam Therese, Adair Lummis, and Allison Stokes. Defecting in Place: Women Claiming Responsibility for Their Own Spiritual Lives. New York: Crossroad, 1994. ISBN 9780824514174

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 46, No. 1, Jean-Paul Benowitz, John Lowry Ruth, Paula T. Hradkowsky, Monica Mutzbauer

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Mennonites of Pennsylvania: A House Divided
• "Not Only Tradition, but Truth": Legend and Myth Fragments Among Pennsylvania Mennonites
• Mennonite Women and Centuries of Change in America
• "It is Painful to Say Goodbye": A Mennonite Family in Europe and America

Introduction To “On Being Mormon In Canada And Canadian In Utah”, Nancy R. Lund

BYU Studies Quarterly

As part of the Asael and Maydell Palmer Lecture Series, Canadian Studies at Brigham Young University presented a program on March 14, 1996, entitled "Three Mormon Women: Reflections and Perspectives." The program featured three outstanding LDS women, all born Canadian—Elaine L. Jack, Ardeth Greene Kapp, and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher.

“But Then Face To Face”: Women's Issues, Mormon Culture, And Doctrine In Eight Pregnancy Narratives, Angela Ashurst-Mcgee

BYU Studies Quarterly

For a Mormon woman, pregnancy can augment her agency, build charity, and transcend stereotypes. Sharing her narrative can help her organize and own her experience.

In Their Own Words: Women And The Story Of Nauvoo By Carol Cornwall Madsen, Michelle Stott

BYU Studies Quarterly

Carol Cornwall Madsen. In Their Own Words: Women and the Story of Nauvoo. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1994. xii; 266 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $14.95.

Audacious Women: Early British Mormon Immigrants By Rebecca Bartholomew, Paula Harline

BYU Studies Quarterly

Rebecca Bartholomew. Audacious Women: Early British Mormon Immigrants. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1995. xv; 288 pp. Bibliography, index. Paperback, $18.95.

Women-Church And Egalitarianism: Revisioning "In Christ There Are No More Distinctions Between Male And Female", Susan A. Farrell

Publications and Research

This chapter from The Power of Gender in Religion (eds G.A. Weatherby and S.A. Farrell) illustrates how women in the Roman Catholic Church are expanding the roles of women and challenging the patriarchal and hierarchical Roman Catholic Church practices. They are accomplishing this through an umbrella organization of feminist groups which maintain their catholic identty while critiquing the church from within.