953: Feminist Mormon Housewives 10-Year Retrospective Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Join us as we interview editors Nancy Ross and Sara Hanks to discuss their anthology, "Where We Must Stand: Ten Years of Feminist Mormon Housewives," an anthology of blog posts from the first decade of the Feminist Mormon Housewives blog, 2004—2014. The posts discuss Mormon women’s experiences of wrestling with feminism in a conservative religious tradition. The book highlights individual moments of reflection and faith while tracking the growth and progress of a larger community and religious social movement. Bloggers and community members moved from writing to activism, witnessed the public excommunication of a community member, mourned, and changed. The Feminist Mormon Housewives blog emerged at a time when the broader Mormon feminist movement was in decline. The bloggers shared their discovery of Mormon feminist history, concerns and fears about polygamy, the difficulty of navigating church and family relationships, losing and finding faith, the worst sex talk that ever happened in a church setting, and the awakening of a broader social consciousness. In doing so, they invited a new generation of women into the movement and helped to rebuild it.
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| 1:29.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John |
| 1:33.0 | DeLin. It's July 17th, 2018. And I could not be more excited to be doing today's interview. |
| 1:43.0 | Today we are going to be discussing a super important book that I just heard about in the past few |
| 1:53.0 | months but was just able to start really reading over the past week or so. The book is entitled |
| 1:58.0 | Where We Must Stand 10 Years of Feminist Mormon Housewives edited by Sarah K. S. Hanks |
| 2:06.0 | and Nancy Ross. Nancy and Sarah have joined us today for this interview. We're planning |
| 2:13.0 | on it going a little under two hours. And the entire purpose of this interview is to discuss |
| 2:18.0 | this really important book. Before podcasts were super popular but after the September 6th, |
| 2:26.0 | the blogging the Mormon blogging world kind of entered the scene around 2004, first with blogs |
| 2:35.0 | and I think by common consent came right up soon after and right within that time a young |
| 2:44.0 | housewife, a red haired housewife from Idaho decided that she felt like there needed to be a space |
| 2:54.0 | for Mormon feminists to discuss feminism. And she started a blog called Feminist Mormon Housewives |
| 3:01.0 | just to this day. But that blog, Feminist Mormon Housewives played a super important role in |
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