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finalcoverREALLY_119C.qxd 7/17/01 12:41 PM Page 2 SUNSTONEMORMONSUNSTONE EXPERIENCE, SCHOLARSHIP, ISSUES & ART July 2001 — $5.95 GADIANTON A PLAY by Eric Samuelsen FINAL IFC TOC IBC.qxd 7/10/01 5:46 PM Page 1 Breaking the mold. Madame Ridiculous Four Zinas Lucy’s Book & Lady Sublime A Story of Mothers A Critical Edition of Lucy New Essays and Daughters on the Mack Smith’s Family Memoir Mormon Frontier Elouise Bell Lavina Fielding Anderson, ed. Martha Sonntag Bradley 946 pp. $44.95, 1-56085-137-6 153 pp. $14.95, 1-56085-147-3 Mary Brown Woodward 497 pp. $34.95, 1-56085-141-4 ere are ten women who defy stereotyping—authors as well as their subjects. Consider Zina HHuntington Young, president of the church-wide Relief Society, who stumped for women’s suffrage and counted among her friends Elizabeth Cady Stanton. And then there’s Lucy Mack Smith whose leadership while the men were away at Zion’s Camp is inspiring. And Elouise Bell’s portrayal of Patty Sessions’ pioneering business venture. These are stories that deserve to be told and retold and preserved in the hearts of our daughters (www.signaturebooks.com, 800-356-5687). Signature Books correctionsTOC.qxd 7/13/01 2:24 PM Page 1 MORMON EXPERIENCE, SCHOLARSHIP, ISSUES, & ART July 2001 Issue 119 FEATURES 30 Stacy Burton . TOWARD A NEW MORMON CULTURAL STUDIES: OR TEN BOOKS I WISH SOMEONE (ELSE) WOULD WRITE 35 Eric Samuelsen . GADIANTON 66 Eric Samuelsen . ME, GADIANTON, AND BYU POETRY 16 Mark Mitchell . SANCTUARY 29 Marden J. Clark. TO BRIAN, LYING DYING SUNSTONE (ISSN 0363-1370) is published by The Sunstone 34 Star Coulbrooke. AT THE MAGDALENA MISSION Foundation, a non-profit corporation with no official 65 Robert J. Holt . THE NATURAL ARCHES (NEAR MOAB, UTAH) connection to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Articles represent the opinions of the writers only. 72 Doug McNamee. BROTHERS 78 Ward Kelley . 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