Feminist Mormon Housewives

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 I decided to choose this blog after reading several others because it interests me to see how people grow up and be feminist. I am curious as to see why they have decided to turn feminist and the struggles they have went through to stand up for what they believe in. In class we have been discussing a lot of stories how women could not speak there mind. This blog is a little different because Joanna did not realize she was a feminist till her college years. She said, "As a young Mormon feminist at BYU, I felt like I finally was starting to figure out how to put the pieces of myself together and understand what my life was for.  I have never felt so alive as when I was marching through the streets of Provo late on a spring night with hundreds of women (and several dozen pro-feminist men) for our first Take Back the Night." This interested me because she went a few years without knowing she was actually feminist. She also stated, "Why, I wondered from the time I was a little girl, if my eternal destiny was homemaking had God given me a head full of brains and words and absolutely no aptitude for or interest in sewing, cooking, or crafting?  That glass slipper just never fit." When I read this I feel like she knew that she wanted to stand for something like equal rights for women. Along with the stories we have been reading in class about women not being able to speak there mind I feel like Joanna was able to and felt like she fit in at church because she stated this about church being a protection for her "where a smart, dark-haired, oustpoken girl was encouraged to take herself seriously."