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. Yet the study of Mormon women has mostly been confined to
biographies, family histories, and women's periodicals. The
contributors to Mormon Women's History engage the vast breadth of
sources left by Mormon women-journals, diaries, letters, family
histories, and periodicals as well as art, poetry, material
culture, theological treatises, and genealogical records-to read
between the lines, reconstruct connections, recover voices, reveal
meanings, and recast stories. Mormon Women's History presents women
as incredibly inter-connected. Familial ties of kinship are
multiplied and stretched through the practice and memory of
polygamy, social ties of community are overlaid with ancestral
ethnic connections and local congregational assignments, fictive
ties are woven through shared interests and collective memories of
violence and trauma. Conversion to a new faith community unites and
exposes the differences among Native Americans, Yankees, and
Scandinavians. Lived experiences of marriage, motherhood, death,
mourning, and widowhood are played out within contexts of expulsion
and exile, rape and violence, transnational immigration,
establishing "civilization" in a wilderness, and missionizing both
to new neighbors and far away peoples. Gender defines, limits, and
opens opportunities for private expression, public discourse, and
popular culture. Cultural prejudices collide with doctrinal
imperatives against backdrops of changing social norms, emerging
professional identities, and developing ritualization and
sacralization of lived religion. The stories, experiences, and
examples explored in Mormon Women's History are neither
comprehensive nor conclusive, but rather suggestive of the ways
that Mormon women's history can move beyond individual lives to
enhance and inform larger historical narratives.
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