Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings
9 best books like Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings (Joanna Brooks): Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life, Letters to a Young Mormon, Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live), A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870, The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America, The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church
| Author | Richard L. Bushman |
| ISBN | 1400077532 |
Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an...
The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
| Author | Terryl L. Givens |
| ISBN | 1609071883 |
"Whether by design or by chance," Terryl and Fiona Givens write, "we find ourselves in a universe filled with mystery. We encounter appealing arguments for a Divinity that is a childish projection, for prophets as scheming or deluded imposters, and for scripture as so much fabulous fiction. But there...
Letters to a Young Mormon
| Author | Adam S. Miller |
| ISBN | 0842528563 |
"This book is composed as a series of letters. The letters are meant for a young Mormon who is familiar with Mormon life but green in their faith....Here, my work is personal. I mean only to address the real beauty and real costs of trying to live a Mormon life. And I hope only to Show something of what it means...
Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor
| Author | Jana Riess |
| ISBN | 1557256608 |
This wry memoir tackles twelve different spiritual practices in a quest to become more saintly, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, the Jesus Prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping, and generosity. Although Riess begins with great plans for success (“Really, how hard could that be?” she asks...
Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live)
A revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shouldered for too long.
It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the "shefault" parent responsible for all aspects of her busy household, Eve Rodsky counted up all the unpaid, invisible...
| Author | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| ISBN | 1681684578 |
From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History, and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and...
The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job
| Author | Karen Kelsky |
| ISBN | 0553419420 |
The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job
Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small...
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
| Author | Christopher Wylie |
| ISBN | 1984854631 |
For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining and psychological manipulation behind the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum, connecting Facebook, WikiLeaks, Russian intelligence, and international hackers.
Mindf*ck...
The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church
| Author | Jana Riess |
| ISBN | 0190885203 |
American Millennials--the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s--have been leaving organized religion in unprecedented numbers. For a long time, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was an exception: nearly three-quarters of people who grew up Mormon stayed that way into adulthood....
