Amy Harris

Rachel Cope

Jane Hinckley

This four-volume collection of primarily newly transcribed manuscript material brings together sources from both sides of the Atlantic and from a wide variety of regional archives. It is the first collection of its kind, allowing comparisons between the development of the family in England and America during a time of significant change. Volume 4: Managing Families, II In this final volume documents are focused on some of the more negative aspects of family life. Sections focus on authority, power and discontent; violence and conflict; and death and mourning. Topics include estate disputes, contested marriages, spousal abuse, deaths, wills and memorials.

Family Life in England and America, 1690–1820, vol 4

This four-volume collection of primarily newly transcribed manuscript material brings together sources from both sides of the Atlantic and from a wide variety of regional archives. It is the first collection of its kind, allowing comparisons between the development of the family in England and America during a time of significant change. Volume 3: Managing Families, I The sources included here document the economics of running a household, the experience of being a sibling and information on family inheritance and genealogy. Specifics on home economics include information on food and cooking, washing laundry, insurance inventories and plantation accounts.

Family Life in England and America, 1690–1820, vol 3

Christie Ruffino

Mona Aburmishan

Lindsey Oaks

Carmela Raimondi

Lisa Bleicher

Tonya Stokes Ford

Tess Booker

Jenni O'Connor

Jillian Von Ohlen

Lauren Bergiel

Orit Shanet

Brittany Prince

Terri Lynn Yanke

Sharon LaPointe

Marilu Almeida Hunt

Cathy Compton

Ginna Tassanelli

Sandra Dugan

Overcoming Mediocrity is a project, developed by Christie Lee Ruffino and the Dynamic Professional Women's Network, Inc., intended to provide women with a platform to share their stories of encouragement, inspiration, and prosperity. This tenth book in the series is a unique collection of stories from empowered women who have overcome great odds to create their own lives of significance. These stories are sure to inspire and encourage women of all ages, to realize their true potential.

A Unique Collection of Stories from Empowered Women Who Have Created Their Own Lives of Significance!

Overcoming Mediocrity - Empowered Women

Amy Easton-Flake

Keith A. Erekson

Lisa Olsen Tait

Mormon Women’s History: Beyond Biography demonstrates that the history and experience of Mormon women is central to the history of Mormonism and to histories of American religion, politics, and culture. Yet the study of Mormon women has mostly been confined to biographies, family histories, and women’s periodicals. The contributors to Mormon Women’s History engage the vast breadth of sources left by Mormon women—journals, diaries, letters, family histories, and periodicals as well as art, poetry, material culture, theological treatises, and genealogical records—to read between the lines, reconstruct connections, recover voices, reveal meanings, and recast stories. Mormon Women’s History presents women as incredibly inter-connected. Familial ties of kinship are multiplied and stretched through the practice and memory of polygamy, social ties of community are overlaid with ancestral ethnic connections and local congregational assignments, fictive ties are woven through shared interests and collective memories of violence and trauma. Conversion to a new faith community unites and exposes the differences among Native Americans, Yankees, and Scandinavians. Lived experiences of marriage, motherhood, death, mourning, and widowhood are played out within contexts of expulsion and exile, rape and violence, transnational immigration, establishing “civilization” in a wilderness, and missionizing both to new neighbors and far away peoples. Gender defines, limits, and opens opportunities for private expression, public discourse, and popular culture. Cultural prejudices collide with doctrinal imperatives against backdrops of changing social norms, emerging professional identities, and developing ritualization and sacralization of lived religion. The stories, experiences, and examples explored in Mormon Women’s History are neither comprehensive nor conclusive, but rather suggestive of the ways that Mormon women’s history can move beyond individual lives to enhance and inform larger historical narratives.

Beyond Biography

Mormon Women’s History

Rachel Cope

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