Relevant Talks by LDS Leaders

• Quentin L. Cook, “Hearts Knit in Righteousness and Unity,” Ensign, November 2020.

• Eubank, Sharon, “By Unity of Feeling We Obtain Power With God,” Ensign, November 2020.

• Bonnie L. Oscarson, “Sisterhood: Oh, How We Need Each Other,” Ensign, April 2014.

• Linda K. Burton, “Strength from Grace: Faithful LDS Women,” BYU Women’s Conference, May 2, 2014.

• M. Russell Ballard, “Let Us Think Straight,” Brigham Young University Campus Education Week Devotional, August 20, 2013.

• Jeffrey R. Holland, “Like A Broken Vessel,” Ensign, October 2013.

• Dallin H. Oaks, “The Keys and Authority of the Priesthood,” Ensign, April 2014.

• Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “Four Titles,” Ensign, April 2013.

• Patricia T. Holland, “A Woman’s Perspective on the Priesthood,” Ensign, July 1980.

• Patricia T. Holland, “’One Thing Needful’: Becoming Women of Greater Faith in Christ,” Ensign, October 1987.

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Books & Articles about LDS Women

• Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings, Editors, Joanna Brooks, Rachel Hunt Steenblik and Hannah Wheelwright

• Joseph Smith, in Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, March 17, 1842, 4, josephsmithpapers.org.

• David L. Paulsen, Martin Pulido, “A Mother There: A Survey of Historical Teachings about Mother in Heaven,” BYU Studies 50, no. 1 (2011): 70–126.

• Jonathan A. Stapley and Kristine Wright. “Female Ritual Healing in Mormonism, Journal of Mormon History, Vol. 37, pp. 1-85, Winter 2011.

• Sheri L. Dew, Women and the Priesthood

• Beverly Campbell, Eve and the Choice Made in Eden

• Melinda Wheelwright Brown, Eve and Adam: Discovering the Beautiful Balance

• McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding, Girls Who Choose God

• McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding, Girls Who Choose God: Stories of Strong Women from the Book of Mormon

• Linda King Newell, The Historical Relationship of Mormon Women and Priesthood, Dialogue

• Melodie Moench Charles, Scriptural Precedents for Priesthood, Dialogue

• Meg Wheatley-Pesci, An Expanded Definition of Priesthood? Some Present and Future Consequences, Dialogue

• Valerie Hudson and Alma Don Sorenson, Women in Eternity, Women in Zion

• Jill Mulvay Derr, Janath Russell Cannon, and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society

• Maureen Ursenbach Beecher and Lavina Fielding Anderson, eds., Sisters in Spirit

• Claudia Bushman, Mormon Sisters: Women in Early Utah

• Claudia Bushman and Caroline Kline, eds., Mormon Women Have Their Say

• Richard E. Turley Jr. and Brittany A. Chapman, Women of Faith in the Latter Days

• M. Russell Ballard, Counseling With Our Councils (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2012)

• Terrence Real, The New Rules of Marriage

• Marianne Williamson, A Women’s Worth

• Deborah Tannen, You Just Don’t Understand

• Stephanie Coontz, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

• Mary Beard, “The Public Voice of Women,” London Review of Books 36, no. 6 (March 20, 2014).

• Sabino Kornrich, Julie Brines, and Katrina Leupp, “Egalitarianism, Housework, and Sexual Frequency in Marriage,” American Sociological Review 78 (2012)

• Girl Scout Research Institute, Change It Up: What Girls Say About Redefining Leadership, 2008

• R. Marie Griffith, God’s Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission

• Steve Graves, Dave Blanchard, Josh Kwan, From Concept to Scale: Creating a Gospel-Minded Organization

• Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzer, Crucial Confrontations

• Vicki W. Kramer, Alison M. Konrad, and Sumru Erkut, “Critical Mass on Corporate Boards: Why Three or More Women Enhance Governance,” Wellesley Centers for Women, 2006

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Newspaper Articles

• Valerie M. Hudson, “What Sex Means for World Peace,” Foreign Policy, April 24, 2012

• Shira Telushkin, “The Facebook of Mormon,” The Atlantic, January 31, 2014

• Kirk Johnson, “Mormons on a Mission,” New York Times, August 20, 2010, New York edition, AR1

• Joseph Walker, “Will a Woman Pray at LDS General Conference?” Deseret News, March 19, 2013

• Jodi Kantor and Laurie Goodstein, “Missions Signal a Growing Role for Mormon Women,” New York Times, March 2, 2013, New York edition, A1

• Jodi Kantor and Laurie Goodstein, “From Mormon Women, a Flood of Requests and Questions on Their Role in the Church,” New York Times, March 6, 2014

• Peggy Fletcher Stack, “’Sister Missionaries’ Causing A Gender Shift in Mormonism, BYU Prof Says,” Salt Lake Tribune, March 27, 2014

• Tad Walch, “New Leadership Roles for Women Alters LDS Mission Culture, Hits at Deep, Long-Term Ramifications,” Deseret News, April 4, 2014