Nancy Ross and Jessica Finnigan are writing an academic paper on Mormon feminist identity and responses to the Mormon Spring. We’re defining the Mormon Spring as the recent changes in church policy together with online activism and activity on the Bloggernacle, from 2012 onward. We need adults, men and women, who identify as Mormon feminists to take this survey. If you identify as Mormon feminist, but have not been baptized, you can still participate in the survey. Our paper will be published in an academic journal. While that may not sound exciting, it is an opportunity to tell people outside of the Bloggernacle about Mormon feminism. And now for the accompanying song…

The History of Mormon Feminism, to the tune of The Brady Bunch

This is a story of a contemporary movement

That started a long long time ago.

There were Emma, Eliza, and other sisters

And they kinda had the priesthood.

(Chorus)

They kinda had the priesthood

They kinda had the priesthood

And some of us, some of us

Want those same things too

But in the Post-War period there were new ideas

That women should only be in the home

And they didn’t have the priesthood, couldn’t give blessings

Couldn’t publish on their own

And time went on and women forgot

All the blessings they’d lost along the way

And the church officials asked all the ladies

To go and defeat the ERA

Then came Sonia and Maxine and many others

Who helped us remember what was lost

From the church they received lots of trouble

And for Six there was a great cost

Too many in the church felt alone

Gender gave them so much grief they could not stay

And they didn’t know any others

Who felt the same way

Then one day Lisa did a great thing

She started a blog for their enjoyment

She probably didn’t know she was starting

A new religious online movement

(Chorus)

Online Mormon feminism

Online Mormon feminism

She probably didn’t know she was starting

Online Mormon feminism

Then Joanna wrote Book of Mormon Girl

And went on the Daily Show

People hadn’t heard of Mormon feminism

But now they were in the know

Along came other blogs on the ‘Nacle

Exponent, ZD, and YMF

And along came Facebook and a group

And then a hundred more

There was an explosion of online activism

Temple baptisms, Pants, Pray, and Ordain

I Am A Mormon Feminist and others

All on the Mofem train

And now we are no longer all alone

We have lots of friends we’ve never met in real life

But we all have each other

With whom to share our gender strife

(Chorus)

Our gender strife

Our gender strife

We have friends with whom to share

Our gender strife

And now Jessica and Nancy have a favor

To ask of all you readers out there

Please take this survey and help us

Our Mofem identity to share

(Chorus)

With academia

With academia

Please help us to share our identity

With academia