Book Description: The Claremont Women's Oral History Project has
collected hundreds of interviews with Mormon women of various ages,
experiences, and levels of activity. These interviews record the
experiences of these women in their homes and family life, their
church life, and their work life, in their roles as homemakers,
students, missionaries, career women, single women, converts, and
disaffected members. Their stories feed into and illuminate the
broader narrative of LDS history and belief, filling in a large gap
in Mormon history that has often neglected the lived experiences of
women. This project preserves and perpetuates their voices and
memories, allowing them to say share what has too often been left
unspoken. The silent majority speaks in these records. This volume
is the first to explore the riches of the collection in print. A
group of young scholars and others have used the interviews to
better understand what Mormonism means to these women and what
women mean for Mormonism. They explore those interviews through the
lenses of history, doctrine, mythology, feminist theory, personal
experience, and current events to help us understand what these
women have to say about their own faith and lives. Praise for
Mormon Women Have Their Say: "Mormon women have always had a lot to
say, but generation after generation, their voices fade away. The
problem is not just that archives and manuals favor the writings of
male leaders. The real problem is that few of us know how to listen
to seemingly common stories. We revere our sisters but don t
understand them. The essays in this volume go beyond collecting and
preserving to the hard work of interpretation. Using a variety of
analytical techniques and their own savvy, the authors connect
ordinary lives with enduring themes in Latter-day Saint faith and
history." --Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of Well-Behaved Women
Seldom Make History
"Essential. Since the 19th century, Mormon women have been
stereotyped as voiceless victims of our own faith. This book and
the larger oral history project it represents amplify the steady,
thoughtful, articulate voices of everyday Mormon women as we
actually are, weighing in on issues that truly matter: belief,
authority, service, family, personal revelation, work, and gender.
Caroline Kline and Claudia Bushman have done a major and necessary
service for Mormon Studies. In these pages, Mormon women will find
ourselves. --Joanna Brooks, author of The Book of Mormon Girl: A
Memoir of an American Faith
"This book is both a product and a celebration of the important
project on women's oral histories inaugurated by Claudia Bushman at
Claremont Graduate University. However, these essays are not merely
transcripts of various interviews. Rather, they are insightful and
interpretive essays illustrating major themes recurring in these
oral histories. The varieties of women's responses to the major
issues in their lives will provide many surprises for the reader,
who will be struck by how many different ways there are to be a
thoughtful and faithful Latter-day Saint woman." --Armand Mauss,
author of All Abraham s Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of
Race and Lineage
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