Gender

This website deals with Joseph Smith’s practice of polygamy from his initial curiosity in the early 1830s to his 1840s sealings to plural wives and his teachings of the principle as a commandment.   It is the first online site completely dedicated to presenting this topic to a mainstream LDS audience, written from a faithful perspective. History, esoteric theology, and controversies are all Read more...

The documents uploaded here are those used to write Joseph Smith’s Polygamy: History and Theology (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2013). The documents found here are of three types. A substantial amount of overlap can be found between the first two sets of documents.  These redundancies can be readily identified in the Master Index. (1) The first set of uploads are Read more...

On Saturday, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints replaced its men-only session at its General Conference with a women’s session for the first time. (Previously, men had their own meetings at every twice-yearly conference, and women met annually on a different weekend.) The president of the church, 94-year-old Russell Nelson, used the historic session to issue Mormon women a Read more...

Remembering the Wives of Joseph Smith Short biographies of all of Joseph’s wives. Acknowledge and remember these largely forgotten women Read more...

A long list of questions that are worthy of consideration and exploration – particularly for those sympathetic to a woman’s role in the LDS Church. The Woman’s CES Letter How many women was Joseph Smith married to? How many of these women were under age 16? How many of these women were married to other men? How many of those Read more...

The Year of Polygamy podcast started out as a weekly series for the Feminist Mormon Housewives Podcast. Due to its national popularity, this site has been created as a better way to manage these important Mormon histories. For over a decade, Feminist Mormon Housewives, a blog NPR’s Krista Tippets called “legendary”, has published essays on subjects pertinent to Mormon women. Ranging from Read more...