Faithful Transgressions In The American West : Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts /

Bush, Laura L., 1963-

Faithful Transgressions In The American West : Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts / Laura L. Bush. - 1 online resource (262 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-236) and index.

Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.

Open Access

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Autobiography--Women authors.
Autobiography--Mormon authors.
Women and literature--West (U.S.)
Women--Intellectual life.--West (U.S.)
Mormon women--Biography--History and criticism.
Women pioneers--Biography--History and criticism.
Women authors, American--Homes and haunts--West (U.S.)
Women authors, American--Biography--History and criticism.
American prose literature--History and criticism.--West (U.S.)
American prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
American prose literature--Mormon authors--History and criticism.


West (U.S.)--Biography--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PS153.M66 / B87 2004

810.9/9287 B