Table Of ContentGender and sexuality give rise to passionate debates among contemporary Mormon
studies scholars and the communities they study. This handbook serves as an indis
pensable orientation to these complex issues and as a springboard for future research.
I highly recommend this volume for anyone interested in the history, culture, theo
logy, and future prospects of the Latter-day Saints.
Patrick Q. Mason, Utah State University, USA
The RouTLedGe handbook of
MoRMonISM and GendeR
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender is an outstanding reference source to this con
troversial subject area. Since its founding in 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints has engaged gender in surprising ways. LdS practice of polygamy in the nineteenth
century both fueled rhetoric of patriarchal rule as well as gave polygamous wives greater auton
omy than their monogamous peers. The tensions over women’s autonomy continued after
polygamy was abandoned and defined much of the twentieth century. In the 1970s, 1990s, and
2010s, Mormon feminists came into direct confrontation with the male Mormon hierarchy.
These public clashes produced some reforms, but fell short of accomplishing full equality. LGbT
Mormons have a similar history. These movements are part of the larger story of how Mormon
ism has managed changing gender norms in a global context. Comprising over forty chapters by
a team of international contributors the handbook is divided into four parts:
• Methodological issues
• Historical approaches
• Social scientific approaches
• Theological approaches.
These sections examine central issues, debates, and problems, including: agency, feminism, sex
uality and sexual ethics, masculinity, queer studies, plural marriage, homosexuality, race, scrip
ture, gender and the priesthood, the family, sexual violence, and identity.
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender is essential reading for students and researchers
in religious studies, gender studies, and women’s studies. The handbook will also be very useful
for those in related fields, such as cultural studies, politics, anthropology, and sociology.
Amy Hoyt as Visiting Scholar of Religion at Claremont Graduate university, uSa. her work
specifically focuses on issues of gender within Mormonism in north america and africa. She has
published in Feminist Theology, Mormon Studies Review, and Gender & History.
Taylor G. Petrey is associate Professor of Religion at kalamazoo College, uSa and editor of
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. he is the author of Tabernacles of Clay: Gender and Sexual
ity in Modern Mormonism (2020).
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ConTenTs
List of illustrations xi
Notes on contributors xiii
Introduction 1
Amy Hoyt and Taylor G. Petrey
Part I
Methodological issues 9
1 Gender and culture in a global church 11
Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
2 Race and gender in Mormonism: 1830–1978 26
Amanda Hendrix-Komoto and Joseph R. Stuart
3 Intersectionality 38
Chiung Hwang Chen and Ethan Yorgason
4 femininities 50
Amy Hoyt
5 Masculinities 60
Sara M. Patterson
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Contents
Part II
Historical approaches 73
6 Joseph Smith, plural marriage, and kinship 75
Benjamin E. Park
7 Mormon gender in the age of polygamy 86
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
8 Mormon women and scripture in the nineteenth century 100
Amy Easton-Flake
9 Mormonism, gender, and art in nineteenth-century Scandinavia 114
Julie K. Allen
10 Mormon gender in the progressive era 129
Matthew Bowman
11 Mormon gender in the mid-twentieth century 143
Colleen McDannell
12 Mormon feminism after 1970 157
Claudia L. Bushman
13 Gender and missionary work 169
David Golding
14 homosexuality and therapeutic culture in Mormonism 187
Eric G. Swedin
15 homosexuality and politics in Mormonism 205
Neil J. Young
16 Mormon LGbTQ organizing and organizations 221
John Donald Gustav-Wrathall
17 Mormonism, gender, and art 239
Mary Campbell
18 Mormon literature and gender 258
Fara Anderson Sneddon
19 Sexual purity and its discontents in Mormonism 271
Sara Moslener
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20 Mormonism and sexual violence 284
Andrea G. Radke-Moss
Part III
Social scientific approaches 303
21 Women and religious organization: a “microbiological” approach to
influence 305
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye
22 Global Mormon perspectives and experiences of familial structures 321
Caroline Kline
23 Structures of home and family: north america 336
Megan Stanton
24 non-traditional families 350
Ryan T. Cragun and Giuseppina Valle Holway
25 Social science perspectives on gender and Mormon orthodoxy 364
Jana Riess and Benjamin Knoll
26 Gender and mental health in Mormon contexts 378
Rebekah Perkins Crawford
27 Women’s gender roles and Mormonism in england 392
Alison Halford
28 Institutional gender negotiations within Irish Mormon congregations 405
Hazel O’Brien
29 Peruvian Mormon matchmaking: the limits of Mormon endogamy at
Zion’s border 419
Jason Palmer
30 Mormon women at work in nicaragua 432
Amanda Talbot Tew
31 Mormon masculinity, family, and kava in the Pacific 449
Arcia Tecun and S. Ata Siu‘ulua
32 Gendered dynamics and institutions within nigerian Mormonism 464
Russell W. Stevenson
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