MoFem Adventures in reading the Old Testament: Intro

This year, the course of study for LDS (Mormon) adult Sunday school is the Old Testament. I'm a Sunday school teacher right now (and for the last 4 years), but not everything ends up making it into my lessons (plus I only teach every 3 or 4 weeks), so I thought I'd have an irregularly recurring series on the Old Testament with regard to a feminist, and specifically a Mormon Feminist (MoFem) viewpoint. I'm not an Old Testament scholar, and I'm not using a lot of resources to back up my ideas. This is just a place to explore my own thoughts and feelings as I understand the scriptural stories and messages.