By: Juvenile Instructor » Forging the Thunderbolts: A Report of the “Women...
[...] invite readers of this post, as well as Tona’s reflections on the second half of the conference, to present respectful reflections of their conference experience, observations about what was [...]
View ArticleBy: AmandaHK
From your post: “Audience comments seconded the notion that gender stereotyping damages spiritual progress but questioned the boundary McBaine had drawn between unassailable doctrine and malleable...
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I hear that, Amanda, and many have expressed similar responses to Neylan’s distinctly accommodationist approach to Mormon women’s issues. And yet, we really need to start somewhere, without losing an...
View ArticleBy: Ben P
Fantastic overview, Tona. While I fear there were not a few problematic stereotypes being presented in the last session, especially concerning Africa, the entire conference was tremendous and...
View ArticleBy: JanieceJ
Like Andrea, I was thinking of Cheryl Preston’s appropriation of an African women’s saying: refusing to let patriarchy or feminism separate us from the source of our liberation. Still wishing I was...
View ArticleBy: smb
Thanks for great reviews of a what by all accounts was a great conference. I have increased sympathy for women separated from desired activities by the exigencies of parenthood–I wanted very much to be...
View ArticleBy: Rachael
Thanks Tona! And gem of a quote, Ben– thanks for including that! I’m putting that under my “Gems” file.
View ArticleBy: David G.
Thanks, Tona. I’m glad to hear that Jane Hafen participated and provided such an important, yet overlooked, perspective. I’m looking forward to her biography of Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala Sa), the early...
View ArticleBy: Tona H
What?! I didn’t know that. Zitkala Sa’s memoir gets excerpted a lot in US survey anthologies, and I’ve used it several times in classes without knowing that additional info. Fascinating. I will stay on...
View ArticleBy: David G.
Hafen published a biographical essay on Bonnin in Sifters: Native American Women’s Lives, ed. Theda Purdue, where she briefly discusses (p. 131-32) Bonnin’s transition from Native religion to...
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