Serious educational, professional, and creative achievements are more possible and more accepted for Mormon women. Of the ten genres, women are represented in seven, all but discourses, the essay, and drama.Īs the twentieth anniversary of the publication of that volume approaches, what can be said about the place and the contributions of Mormon women in recent fiction? Certainly the larger social currents of feminism have partially changed the deep channels in which Mormon currents also run. Of the ninety-seven authors, twenty-nine (29.9 percent) are women, and, of the 130 selections, 43 (33 percent) were authored by women. Lambert published their landmark anthology, A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints, they clearly made a conscientious effort to include women authors. Lavina Fielding Anderson (Ph.D., University of Washington) is a founding member and past president of the Association for Mormon Letters, former associate editor of Ensign and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, current editor of the Journal of Mormon History, and an editorial board member of Signature Books, Restoration Studies V, and Mormon Women's Forum.
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