Women

Women’s roles, authority limitations, and gender hierarchy within LDS doctrine and practice.

Eternal Patriarchy: Women Without Divinity.

Explores LDS doctrine confining women to exaltation through male divine hierarchy.

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Gender Inequality at the Heart of LDS Authority.

Shows how LDS male-only priesthood restricts women from leadership, governance, and spiritual authority.

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Would You Follow a Prophet Accused of Exploiting Minors?

Joseph Smith’s teenage plural marriages raise enduring ethical questions.

Brigham Young’s Troubling Reproductive Advice.

Brigham Young condemned family planning while idealizing prolific motherhood.

When Reproductive Decisions Became Measures of Righteousness.

Erastus Snow made reproductive choices measures of religious righteousness.