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Podcast: Mormon Land
Episode: The evolution of Exponent II and LDS feminism | Episode 385
Description: In the mid-1970s, a tiny group of Latter-day Saint women in Boston launched a modest effort to discuss women’s issues — past and present — in a magazine they called Exponent II (named after the newspaper of their Mormon foremothers, Woman’s Exponent).
These modern feminists did not challenge the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on, say, polygamy, priesthood or other doctrines. They focused primarily on the challenges of motherhood, marriage and material culture.
Their first editor was Claudia Lauper Bushman, who exemplified Mormonism as wife of famed historian and Latter-d...