Feminist historian and editor
Maxine Hanks
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The September Six
Feminist historian and editor
Hanks edited Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism (Signature, 1992), which gathered feminist writing on Latter-day Saint women's relationship to priesthood. She has said that five of her contributors and she herself faced Church discipline, and that four of them were among the September Six. Excommunicated on 19 September 1993, she later worked as a chaplain and a scholar of Gnosticism and was rebaptized in February 2012 without recanting her work.
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Paul Toscano and Maxine Hanks are excommunicated
About a hundred people kept vigil in the Cottonwood stake centre parking lot from six in the morning. Toscano asked that the proceedings be public, that his witnesses and his wife be present throughout, and that an independent party take notes; all four requests were denied. The council worked from a transcript it had made of a cassette of his Sunstone address. Hanks, who had edited Women and Authority, was excommunicated the same day.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports the outcomeshinge
'Three men and three women have been charged with apostasy for their writing and speaking about Mormon subjects. Paul Toscano, Avraham Gileadi, D. Michael Quinn, Maxine Hanks and Lavina Fielding Anderson were excommunicated. Lynne Kanavel Whitesides was disfellowshiped.' The story ran on the eve of general conference; the New York Times put the affair on its front page and National Public Radio carried comments from Dallin H. Oaks.
Maxine Hanks is rebaptized
Hanks returned to the Church nineteen years after her excommunication, invited by Church leadership. 'I didn't recant anything I'd said or written in the past or change my feminist views or work,' she said. 'I simply wanted to restore my membership, as I am.' She has continued to publish on Mormon women's history and theology.
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Spiritual Paths After September 1993
Lynne Kanavel Whitesides, Paul James Toscano, Maxine Hanks, D. Michael Quinn and Lavina Fielding Anderson
Five of the six speaking together ten years afterward about what they decided, what it cost and where it took them.
A Feminist FHE Discussion with Maxine Hanks
Maxine Hanks
Hanks's own account of what Women and Authority contained, who else was disciplined over it, and the terms on which she returned in 2012.
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