Sonia Johnson

A Mormon Feminist

Christine Talbot (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

136 Seiten

2024
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08817-9 (ISBN)

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Few figures in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provoke such visceral responses as Sonia Johnson. Her unrelenting public support of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) made her the face of LDS feminism while her subsequent excommunication roiled the faith community.

Christine Talbot tells the story of Sonia’s historic confrontation with the Church within the context of the faith’s first large-scale engagement with the feminist movement. A typical if well-educated Latter-day Saints homemaker, Sonia was moved to action by the all-male LDS leadership’s opposition to the ERA and a belief the Church should stay out of politics. Talbot uses the activist’s experiences and criticisms to explore the ways Sonia’s ideas and situation sparked critical questions about LDS thought, culture, and belief. She also illuminates how Sonia’s excommunication shaped LDS feminism, the Church’s antagonism to feminist critiques, and the Church itself in the years to come.

A revealing and long-overdue account, Sonia Johnson explores the life, work, and impact of the LDS feminist.

Christine Talbot is a professor in the Gender Studies Program at the University of Northern Colorado. She is the author of A Foreign Kingdom: Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852–1890.

Foreword to the Introductions to Mormon Thought Series Matthew Bowman and Joseph M. Spencer

Acknowledgments

Chapter One
“Patriarchy Is a Sham”: A Short Biography of Sonia Johnson

Chapter Two
“Well, I’m About to Find Out”: Disciplining Mormons, Disciplining Feminism

Chapter Three
“A Compromise with Integrity that It Simply Cannot Afford”: The Gendered Ethics of Revelation, Religion, and Politics

Chapter Four
“The Grossest Misuses of Women’s Religious Convictions”: Gender, Honesty, and Accountability

Bibliographic Essay

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Introductions to Mormon Thought
Vorwort	Matthew Bowman, Joseph M. Spencer
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	59 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-08817-4 / 0252088174
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08817-9 / 9780252088179
Zustand	Neuware