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.
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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
"Talbot's treatment of Sonia Johnson's life and thought is deeply researched and wonderfully presented. It offers new information and fresh analysis of well-told stories. The result is an excellent study of Johnson's rather remarkable journey through two turbulent decades of the 1970s- and 1980s-women's movement and her own personal clash with her leaders in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Johnson's story reveals so much about activism, gender, and power in her church, the feminist movement, and the United States."--Taylor Petrey, author of Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism