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Not only is the story revealed in Immodest Acts that of the rise and fall of a powerful woman in a church community and a record of the life of a religious visionary, it is also the earliest documentation of lesbianism in modern Western history.
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy is a non-fiction book by American historian Judith C. Brown, published by Oxford University Press on November 14, 1985, in hardback and on December 11, 1986, in paperback.
In a 1964 letter to the Church News, Apostle Joseph Fielding Smith strongly encouraged the women of the Church to “correct the evil. .. which confronts the female world and which members of the Church imitate,” by which he meant immodest dress.
WOMEN WERE THE LAST DISCIPLES at the cross and the first at the empty tomb. they remained integral to the work of the church in its early centuries. Catherine Kroeger scours historical data to compile an impressive collection of stories about noteworthy women in the early church.
Not only is the story revealed in Immodest Acts that of the rise and fall of a powerful woman in a church community and a record of the life of a religious visionary, it is also the earliest...
Not only is the story revealed in Immodest Acts that of the rise and fall of a powerful woman in a church community and a record of the life of a religious visionary, it is also the earliest documentation of lesbianism in modern Western history.
historic context to the American church’s engagement in the polarizing world of women’s rights. Beyond complementarianism or egalitarianism, this paper will demonstrate not what roles women...
