Word: mormons
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Evans, 33, a former advertising executive in Salt Lake City, Utah, wrote the story in 1992 as a gift for his two daughters. A devout Mormon, he credits divine guidance at 4 a.m. for revealing the book's structure (a boon that should make him the envy of the entire writing community), and his work does bear a resemblance to the Christian fiction that has been a flourishing publishing genre in the past few years. In the book Richard, a young Salt Lake City man, and his wife move in with Mary, a luminous and wealthy old woman, who houses...
...surface that label seems a bit of an oxymoron; the Mormon church is not well known for liberal attitudes toward women or politics...
...Ulrich, who joined the Harvard Faculty this fall as Phillips Professor of Early American History and Professor of Women's Studies, points out that in 1870 Utah women--the majority of whom were Mormon--became the first American women to vote...
...that isn't always easy. Twenty years ago, Ulrich was one of a group of Mormon women who founded a feminist newspaper, Explorer II. Church leaders did not enthusiastically accept the journal, she adds...
...Mormon community is just much more liberal in the Northeast," Ulrich says. "I'm really not so strange here...