From Testimony to Seximony, from Script to Scripture: Revealing Mormon Women's Sexuality through the Mormon Vagina Monologues

In 2001, a group of Mormon women scripted and performed the Mormon Vagina Monologues and presented their monologues at the annual Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City, Utah. Using the Mormon rhetorical mode of performed testimony, the monologists critiqued the facets of their patriarchal church that...

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Main Author: Peterfeso, Jill (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Indiana University Press 2011
In: Journal of feminist studies in religion
Year: 2011, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 31-49
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