Alexander, T. G. (1986) Church and community: Latter-day Saint women in the progressive era, 1890–1930. In C.C. Madsen, & C.B. Silver (Eds.), New scholarship on Latter-day Saint women in the twentieth century (pp.195-209). Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History
The Women’s History Initiative held seminars in 2003 and 2004 about the experiences of women in the Church during the Progressive Era through civil rights reforms, and the proceedings of these seminars are published here.  These essays open the dialogue about women in the Church and analyzes the significance on the women’s movement of the time.

Allen, J. B. (2005). Mormon women and American culture since 1950: A preliminary analysis In C.C. Madsen, & C.B. Silver (Eds.), New scholarship on Latter-day Saint women in the twentieth century (pp.195-209). Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History.
The Women’s History Initiative held seminars in 2003 and 2004 about the experiences of women in the Church during the Progressive Era through civil rights reforms, and the proceedings of these seminars are published here.  These essays open the dialogue about women in the Church and analyzes the significance on the women’s movement of the time.

Beecher, M. U., & Anderson, L. F. (1987). Sisters in spirit: Mormon women in historical and cultural perspective. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Bridging the gap between Mormon history and women’s history through the exploration of the identity of Mormon women.  Through nine essays and two poems, female Mormon scholars analyze the present Church practices against the history of the Church both culturally and doctrinally.

Bennion, F. (1990). Women and the Book of Mormon. In M. Cornwall & S. Howe (Eds.) Women of wisdom and knowledge: Talks selected from the BYU Women’s Conference. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 169-178.
This is a part of a collection of eight books that have talks from the BYU Women’s Conference from over the years.  Women’s Conference is held on BYU campus once a year with a variety of speakers speaking to a female audience.

Brady, M. (2000). Mormon healer & folk poet: Mary Susannah Fowler's life of "unselfish usefulness". Logan: Utah State University Press.
A biography of the life of Mary Susannah Sumner Fackrell Fowler.  She and her husband, Henry Ammon Fowler, had eight children, and then Henry took a second wife, becoming a polygamist. Through her own writings and those around her, Mary’s story is revealed.

Campbell, B. (1993, April). Mother Eve, mentor for today’s women: A heritage of honor. Talk given at the 11th annual conference of Collegium Aesculapium, Salt Lake City, UT.
Taking an LDS perspective, Campbell argues against the traditional view of Eve as weak and sinful, and applauds her efforts as the mother of all mankind.

Derr, J. M., Cannon, J. R., & Beecher, M. U. (1992). Women of covenant: The story of relief society. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company.
One of the largest women’s organizations in the world, the Relief Society has a rich history.  Through this story of the Relief Society, the purpose of this organization in the worldwide Church comes through.

Derr, J.M., & Madsen, C.C. (2005). Something better for the sisters: Joseph Smith and the female Relief Society of Nauvoo. In Joseph Smith and the doctrinal restoration: The 34th annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (pp.123-143). Provo: Religious Studies Center, BYU, and Salt Lake City: Deseret Book.
The 2005 Sperry Symposium theme was the Restoration of the Gospel and the Prophet Joseph Smith.  Topics addressed at the symposium was: premortal life, eternal marriage, temple service, the Joseph Smith Translation, and the establishment of the early Church.

Fronk, Camille. (2003). In the hands of the potter. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book.
The Savior often is referred to a potter molding each of us through experience and trials.  The woman at the well was no different.  Her story serves as an example of the power the Potter has and this power can be seen in our lives through this story.

Fronk, Camille. (2002). Submit yourselves . . . As unto the Lord. In Go ye into all the world: Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. (pp. 98-113) Salt Lake City: Deseret Book.
The 2002 Sperry Symposium theme surrounded the teachings of the New Testament.  The New Testament contains powerful teachings and instruction from the apostle, and as shown through this symposium, they have influenced our Church today.

Fronk, Camille. (2000). Desert epiphany: Sariah and the women in 1 Nephi, Journal of Book of Mormon studies, vol. 9, no. 2; (pp. 5-15).
The story of 1 Nephi is told from a male perspective, however, what if it was told through the eyes of the nine women on the journey.

Frymer-Kensky, T. (2002). Reading the women of the Bible. New York: Schocken Books.
The stories in the Bible are predominantly told by male authors, the themes of the stories can also be seen through a feminine perspective in the context of their own times and in the context of modern-day society.

Godfrey, K.W., Godfrey, A.M., & Derr, J.M. (1982). Women’s voices: An untold history of the Latter-day Saints, 1830–1900. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book.
A compilation of 250 diaries, letters, and journals from LDS women in the early days of the Church, including women not well known and those that are known by many.

Hafen, B. C. (2008). Motherhood and the moral influence of women.
In an address to the World Congress, Elder Hafen defends the fundamental unit of society, the family.

Harrison, K., & Richards, M.S. (1996). Feminism in the Light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. BYU Studies, 36(2).
Discussing the equality between genders in the gospel explaining that it is inherently fair and equal treatment of Heavenly Father’s children.

Hinckley, G. B. (1996, November). Women of the church. Ensign.
An inspiring talk from a General Conference where the prophet spoke to the women in the congregation about a variety of concerns that they face.

Hinckley, G.B. (2002, May). Personal Worthiness to Exercise the Priesthood. Ensign.(pp. 52).
A talk from the priesthood session of General Conference that reminds the brethren to treat women well.

Hinckley, G.B. (2003, November) To the Women of the Church. Ensign. (pp. 113-115).
A talk from the Relief Society General Broadcast in which he encourages the sisters to continue to do their best.

Howe, S.E., & Bench, S.M. (Eds.). (2004). Discoveries: Two centuries of poems by Mormon women. Provo, Utah: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History at Brigham Young University and Association for Mormon Letters.

A collection of poems written by Mormon women during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  The poems discuss the life experiences of these women through all of the events that one goes through in life.

Hudson, V. (2006). “Demographic and Gender-Related Trends: Their Effect on Nations, Regions, and the International System.” International challenges facing the church: The International Society 17th Annual Conference, 3 April 2006. Provo, Utah: David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, Brigham Young University. 26–31.

Kane, E. W. (1974). Twelve Mormon homes: Visited in succession on a journey through Utah to Arizona. Salt Lake City, UT: Tanner Trust Fund.
Written by a non-Mormon, this book gives an account of Mormon polygamy.  Four members of the Kane family were invited to accompany the Mormons from Salt Lake City to St. George and this is an account of the trip and the Mormon families that they knew.

Kane, E., Bowen, N. R., & Solomon, Mary Karen Bowen. (1995). A gentile account of life in Utah's Dixie 1872-73: Elizabeth Kane's St. George journal. Salt Lake City, UT: Tanner Trust Fund.
During their trip to St. George, Elizabeth Kane kept a journal of her experiences.  It was later discovered, edited, and published.

Kimball, Spencer W. (1980). My beloved sisters. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book.
Two talks entitled “A woman's most important choices” and “Be thou an example” given at the Women's Conference of the Church, Sept. 16, and Sept. 15, 1978, respectively.

Madsen, C. C. (2005) An advocate for women: The public life of Emmeline B. Wells, 1870 – 1920. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press.
Before she became the Relief Society general president, Emmeline B. Wells was very active in the political and social spheres as she fought for women’s suffrage and defended plural marriage. She lived an extraordinary life and she deserves to be remembered as a great figure in history.

Madsen, C. C. (Ed.). (1997). Battle for the ballot: Essays on woman suffrage in Utah, 1870 – 1896. Logan: Utah State University Press.
Utah was one of the first states to offer the right to vote to the women of their state.  But this took time, and we can learn more about how women gained suffrage through this collection of essays.

Madsen, C. C. (Ed.). (1994). In their own words: Women and the story of Nauvoo. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book.
Twenty-five women’s experiences and words are told and from them we learn more about the women as individuals and about the Church in Nauvoo.

Meyers, C. (2000). Women in scripture: A dictionary of named and unnamed women in the Hebrew bible, the Apocryphal/DeuteroCanonical books, and the New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
There are many women that appear in the Bible, both named and unnamed, and this book explores each of them individually in more than 800 articles.

Morrill, S. (2007). “Women’s popular literature as theological discourse: A Mormon case study, 1880–1920.” In Catherine A. Brekus. (Ed.), The religious history of American women: Reimagining the past. (pp. 184–205). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Through twelve essays, this work discusses the religious history of American women through a variety of topics, like: Mormonism, Judaism, Catholicism, the Civil Rights Movement, and the women’s rights movement.

Morrison, A. (1994). Challenges Facing Women in the Developing World. In Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference of The International Society, 15 August 1994. Provo, Utah: David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, Brigham Young University.

Olson, Camille Fronk (2006). Mary, Martha, and me. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book.
Mary and Martha serve Christ in two different ways and one is not necessarily better than the other.  We can learn from their example that what we need to do is fully serve Christ to the best of our abilities.

Peterson, J., & Gaunt, L. (2008). Faith, hope, and charity: Inspiration from the lives of general Relief Society presidents. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications.
Each Relief Society president has their own unique story and serve as an example to all women of serving the Lord with all your heart.  Each sister has their own talents that they were able to apply to their calling, and they made a difference in the world and in the Church.

Preston, C.B. (2005). Mormon Women in the Second Wave: Refusing to Let Patriarchy or Feminism Separate Us from the Source of Our Liberation. In C.C. Madsen, & C.B. Silver (Eds.), New scholarship on Latter-day Saint women in the twentieth century (pp.210-225). Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History.
The Women’s History Initiative held seminars in 2003 and 2004 about the experiences of women in the Church during the Progressive Era through civil rights reforms, and the proceedings of these seminars are published here.  These essays open the dialogue about women in the Church and analyzes the significance on the women’s movement of the time.

Richards, M. S. (1992). Feminism. In D. H. Ludlow (Ed.), The encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol. 2. (pp. 506-507). New York: Macmillan.
The Church’s opinions in the treatment of women and how those compare to feminism.

Samuelson, Cecil O. (2005). Family, Education, and Careers. Retrieved August 12, 2008, from http://cpms.byu.edu/speeches/family-education-careers.
Many women in the hard sciences wrestle with having a family and their hopes for a future career because they wonder if it goes against Church doctrine.  President Samuelson explains in general terms how to come to grips with your personal life.

Schneider, T. J. (2008). Mothers of promise: Women in the book of Genesis. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.
Focusing on the women in Genesis, the reader learns more about the culture of these women and how they were able to have so much influence over the future of Israel.

Scott, P. L., & Thatcher, L. (2005). Women in Utah history. Logan: Utah State University Press.
History is always seen through a different light when approached from the history of the women, which is done here with the history of Utah.

Sorensen, A.D., & Cassler, V.H. (2004). Women in eternity, women of Zion. Springville, UT: Cedar Fort.
The LDS view that men and women are equal in the sight of God goes contrary to the view of the world and sometimes these lines can be blurred.  Through an in-depth discussion of the issues facing gender equality, these lines are more defined.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. (1990). Woman in sacred history: A celebration of women in the Bible. New York: Portland House (Original work published 1873).

Tullidge, E. (1877). The women of Mormondom. New York: Tullidge & Crandall.
Serves as a history of the women of the early Church, including: Eliza R. Snow, Prescindia L. Kimball, Zina D. Young, Louisa F. Wells, Mary Fielding, and Bathsheba W. Smith.  Also includes stories of polygamy and the Utah War.

Whipple, M. (1976). The giant Joshua. Salt Lake City, UT: Western Epics, Inc.
As a historical fiction novel, it tells the story of a young Mormon girl that has to choose if and how she keeps her family together in Utah’s Dixie of the 1860s.

Whitley, C. (1996). Worth their salt: Notable but often unnoted women of Utah. Logan: Utah State University Press.
A collection of 18 biographies of women who have contributed to Utah’s story and have not been recognized for it.  The women include: Patty Sessions, Jane Manning James, Maude Adams, and Helen Zeese Papanikolas.

Whitley, C. (2000). Worth their salt too: More notable but often unnoted women of Utah. Logan: Utah State University Press.
As a companion to the 1996 book, Worth their salt, a whole new collection of sixteen biographies appears.  Through their experiences, more Utah’s history is discovered and learned.

Williams, C. S. (2002). Women in the Book of Mormon: Inclusions, exclusions, and interpretation. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, 11, 67-79.