The Body is Political: Part 3
My mother needed a bank account. Her husband, my stepfather, frequently spent their income before the end of the month, leaving us with little food and no money for the mortgage. So she set...
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Guest Post: When I Realized I Was A Radical Feminist
Guest Post by Laura. I am a writer, teacher, wife and mother who loves to read all kinds of books. I reside in Texas with my family and a house full of pets. I...
I Wish Sonia Johnson Were Irrelevant
I recently read Sonia Johnson’s memoir From Housewife to Heretic: One Woman’s Struggle for Equal Rights and Her Excommunication from the Mormon Church. The book made me furious. Captain Marvel in flames mad. Why?...
Guest Post: Dear Phil Donahue
By Kristin Lowe February 4, 1980. The credits began to roll on the Phil Donahue show. Director. Executive Producer. Senior Producer. Superimposed titles and names washed over General Relief Society President, Barbara Smith. She...
Book Review: From Housewife to Heretic by Sonia Johnson
Four decades later and Sonia Johnson’s memoir about her feminist awakening, support of the ERA, and excommunication are still very familiar and relevant. This book has been on my shelf for a few years...
Mormon Feminism in 1977 and Today
This week marks the 40th anniversary the National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas, a culmination of the International Women’s Year (IWY) celebrations in the 1970s. I recently went to Houston for the 40th anniversary...
Guest Post: No More Fear-Driven Faith for Me!
We’re delighted to showcase some of Exponent II’s founding mothers and long-time contributors in the upcoming days and weeks. We look to them, those who have seen and weathered periods of apostasy accusations and...
1977 Relief Society Activism (Under Priesthood Supervision, Of Course)
This twenty-minute video was recently released by KUED, a public television station in Utah to accompany Makers: Women Who Make America. It outlines 1970s feminist history in Utah, including the LDS church intervention that...
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