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The central issue Bush finds in these works is how their authors have dealt with the authority of Mormon Church leaders. As she puts it in her preface, "I ...
Faithful transgressions in the American West : six twentieth-century Mormon women's autobiographical acts by Bush, Laura L., 1963-
In their life writing, both Tanner and Williams formulate public arguments against Mormon women’s subordination. At the end of the twentieth century, Williams abandons strict orthodoxy and takes a decidedly crit-ical view of patriarchy and women’s position in the LDS Church.
Todd Compton; Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts, Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 37,
Faithful transgressions in the American West : six twentieth-century Mormon women’s autobiographical acts / Laura L. Bush. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87421-551-X (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. American prose literature—Mormon authors—History and criticism. 2. American
teenth century in the United States, for example, Mormon women defended themselves at mass meetings and in writing against women social reformers who criticized or pitied Mormon women for practicing polygamy. Contemporary members of the mainstream LDS Church now contract only monogamous marriages, but many outsiders continue to
1 de mar. de 2004 · Laura L. Bush examines six twentieth-century autobiographies by Mormon women--Mary Ann Hafen, Annie Clark Tanner, Wynetta Willis Martin, Terry Tempest Williams, and Phyllis Barber--each of whom adopts a sympathetic, yet critical view of the Mormon religion.
