Review: Rachel Cope, Amy Easton-Flake, Keith Erekson, and Lisa Olsen Tait, eds. Mormon Women’s History: Beyond Biography. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017.

Authors

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp

Keywords

Mormonism, women, history, patriarchy, scholarship

Abstract

“Women shaped Mormonism from its outset.” Simple, isn’t it? With all that scholars now know about the distinctive emphasis on family and childbearing in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint tradition, it seems obvious that women have played a crucial role in the development of Mormon history and community life. Yet, as the framing essays in Mormon Women’s History: Beyond Biography so amply demonstrate, the broader narrative histories of the tradition remain willfully fixed on its patriarchal organizational structure and male leadership. Despite an abundance of work in social and cultural history beginning in the 1970s, women’s roles are still ancillary in the shaping of larger stories.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F. (2019) "Review: Rachel Cope, Amy Easton-Flake, Keith Erekson, and Lisa Olsen Tait, eds. Mormon Women’s History: Beyond Biography. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017.," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 6: No. 1, Article 14.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol6/iss1/14