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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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Representing Rural Women (Paperback)
Whitney Womack Smith, Margaret Thomas-Evans; Contributions by Agatha Beins, Laurie JC Cella, Jim Coby, …
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R1,415
Discovery Miles 14 150
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Representing Rural Women highlights the complexity and diversity of
representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada from the
nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in this
collection offer fresh perspectives on representations of rural
women in literature, popular culture, and print, digital, and
social media. They explore a wide range of time periods, geographic
spaces, and rural women's experiences, including Mormon pioneer
women, rural lesbians in the 1970s, Canadian rural women's
organizations, and rural trans youth. In their stories, these women
and girls navigate the complex realities of rural life, create
spaces for self-expression, develop networks to communicate their
experiences, and challenge misconceptions and stereotypes of rural
womanhood. The chapters in this collection consider the ways that
rural geography allows freedoms as well as imposes constraints on
women's lives, and explore how cultural representations of rural
womanhood both reflect and shape women's experiences.
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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Representing Rural Women (Hardcover)
Margaret Thomas-Evans, Whitney Womack Smith; Contributions by Agatha Beins, Laurie JC Cella, Jim Coby, …
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R3,488
Discovery Miles 34 880
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Representing Rural Women seeks to highlight the complexity and
diversity of representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada
from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in
the collection offer fresh perspectives on representations of rural
women in literature, popular culture, and print, digital, and
social media. They explore a wide range of time periods, geographic
spaces, and rural women's experiences, including Mormon pioneer
women, rural lesbians in the 1970s, Canadian rural women's
organizations, and rural trans youth. In their stories, these women
and girls navigate multiple settings and address the complex
realities of rural life, create spaces for self-expression, develop
networks to communicate their experiences, and seek to challenge
misconceptions and stereotypes of rural womanhood. The chapters in
this collection consider the ways that rural geography may allow
freedoms as well as impose constraints on women's lives, and
ultimately how cultural representations of rural womanhood both
reflect and shape women's experiences.
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