Item Detail
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33115
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English
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Masculinities
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Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
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London
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Routledge
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60-71
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"In this essay, I will focus on two particularly descriptive memoirs about life as a Mormon man, Wain Myers’ and William Shunn’s, both of whom embraced certain aspects of Mormon masculinity and rejected others. It is at the individual level, where masculinity shifts from paper to practice, that more multiplicity is possible. In life, masculinity intersects with the lived realities of men who are not just religious beings but who also have cultural, regional, and socio-economic expectations woven into their notions of manhood. It is at these intersections and at the boundaries of the official Mormon manhood offered by the church hierarchy that the notions of masculinity may be fraying at the edges. In particular, it is at the level of practical, lived religion that the church’s 'official' masculinity is being challenged because of its assumed heteronormativity, the limitations and exclusions it places on women in their religious lives, and its markedly American characteristics." [Author]