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English
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Exceptionally Queer: Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
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University of Minnesota Press
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"Exceptionally Queer scrutinizes the history of Mormonism starting with its inception in the early 1830s and continuing to the present. Drawing on a wide range of historical texts and moments—from nineteenth-century battles over Mormon plural marriage; to the LDS Church’s emphases on 'individual responsibility' and 'family values'; to mainstream media’s coverage of the LDS Church’s racist exclusion of Black priesthood holders, its Native assimilation programs, and vehement opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment; and to much more recent legal and cultural battles over same-sex marriage and on-screen Mormon polygamy—Exceptionally Queer evaluates how Mormonism has been used to motivate and rationalize the biased, exclusionary, and colonialist policies and practices of the U.S. nation-state.
Mohrman explains that debates over Mormonism both drew on and shaped racial discourses and, in so doing, delineated the boundaries of whiteness and national belonging, largely through the consolidation of (hetero)normative ideas of sex, marriage, family, and economy. Ultimately, the author shows how discussions of Mormonism in this country have been and continue to be central to ideas of what it means to be American. " [Amazon summary]
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A Chosen People, a Promised Land : Mormonism and Race in Hawai'i
A Foreign Kingdom : Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890
A House Full of Females : Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
An Experiment in Progressive Legislation : The Granting of Woman Suffrage in Utah in 1870
An Ordered Love : The Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias--The Shakers, The Mormons, and The Oneida Community
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
A Peculiar People : The Physiological Aspects of Mormonism, 1850-1975
Battle for the Ballot : Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896
"Blindside" : Utah on the Eve of Brown v. Board of Education
Building the City of God : Community and Cooperation among the Mormons
Celestial Marriage (Eternal and Plural)
Changing Perspectives on Sexuality and Marriage
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
Difference and Otherness : Mormonism and the American Religious Mainstream
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
Eliza R. Snow and the Woman Question
Essays on American Indian and Mormon History
Evangelical America and Early Mormonism
Exhibiting Mormonism : The Latter-day Saints and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
Fascinating and Happy : Mormon Women, the LDS Church, and the Politics of Sexual Conservatism
Forgotten Kingdom : The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896
Gay Rights and the Mormon Church : Intended Actions, Unintended Consequences
Good, Evil and Godhood : Mormon Morality in the Material World
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Hereditary Descent : Or, Depravity of the Off-Spring of Polygamy among the Mormons
History of Utah
History of Utah Radicalism : Startling, Socialistic, and Decidedly Revolutionary
In Their Own Behalf : The Politicization of Mormon Women and the 1870 Franchise
Intolerable Zion : The Image of Mormonism in Nineteenth Century American Literature
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism
Lavender Sons of Zion : A History of Gay Men in Salt Lake City, 1950--1979
LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904
Learning to Shop in Zion : The Consumer Revolution in Great Basin Mormon Culture, 1847-1910
Make Yourselves Gods : Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
Mormon Doctrine
Mormonism and the American Experience
Mormonism and the Negro
Mormonism and White Supremacy : American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormonism's Negro Doctrine : An Historical Overview
Mormon Masculinity : Changing Gender Expectations in the Era of Transition from Polygamy to Monogamy, 1890-1920
Mormon Sexuality and American Culture
Multiply and Replenish : Mormon Essays on Sex and Family
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
One Nation Under God : Mormon Theology and the American Continent
On the Mormon Question : Race, Sex, and Polygamy in the 1850s and the 1990s
Phrenology among the Mormons
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Railroading Religion : Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West
'Regeneration - Now and Evermore!' Mormon Polygamy and the Physical Rehabilitation of Humankind
Religion and Sexuality : Three American Communal Experiments in the Nineteenth Century
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Saints, Slaves, and Blacks : The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism
Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-century Americans : A Mormon Example
Sensational Virtue : Nineteenth-Century Mormon Fiction and American Popular Taste
Social Problems of Today : The Mormon Problem in Its Economic Aspects
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
Spencer W. Kimball : Twelfth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Tabernacles of Clay : Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
'Tell It All' : The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism
Terrible Revolution : Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse
'The Abominable and Detestable Crime against Nature' : A Brief History of Homosexuality and Mormonism, 1840-1980
The 'Americanization' of Utah for Statehood
The Angel and the Beehive : The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
The Awesome Power of Sex : The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy
The History of the Saints : Or, An Expose of Joe Smith and Mormonism
The Indian Student Placement Program and Native Direction
"The Lamanites Shall Blossom as the Rose" : The Indian Student Placement Program, Mormon Whiteness, and Indigenous Identity
The Latter-day Saints and Women's Rights, 1870-1920 : A Brief Survey
The Mormon Church and Blacks : A Documentary History
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Graphic Image, 1834-1914 : Cartoons, Caricatures, and Illustrations
The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
The Mormon Image in the American Mind : Fifty Years of Public Perception
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Mormons' War on Poverty : A History of LDS Welfare 1830-1990
The Negro in Utah
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Prohibition of Interracial Marriage in Utah, 1888-1963
The Story of the Latter-day Saints
The True Policy for Utah : Servitude, Slavery, and "An Act in Relation to Service"
The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
Turkey Is in Our Midst : Mormonism as an American Islam
"Until This Curse of Polygamy Is Wiped Out" : Black Methodists, White Mormons, and Constructions of Racial Identity in the Late Nineteenth Century
Visions in a Seer Stone : Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
“Which Side of the Line?” : American Indian Students and Programs at Brigham Young University, 1960–1983
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Woman's Place is in the Constitution : The struggle for Equal Rights in Utah in 1895
Women, Family, and Utopia : Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900