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English
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Mormon Gender in the Progressive Era
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Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
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London
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Routledge
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129-142
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"More than any other single factor, the slow abandonment of polygamy transformed the ways in which Mormons thought about gender in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mormon men were accustomed to viewing themselves as figures akin to the patriarchs of scripture and thus had to reframe what it meant to be religious in an American society suspicious of Mormon patriarchy. Mormon women, who had imagined themselves as simultaneously participants in the patriarchal order of polygamous marriage but also members of an activist female community centered upon the church-sponsored Relief Society, similarly found themselves stripped of older institutions and norms. Mormon men and women, then, had to adapt to new gender norms as their church sought greater integration into American life, and Mormon leaders, male and female, sought to implement reforms in order to guide their flock as they worked out precisely what those might be. They drew both on ideas embedded within Mormonism itself and on the norms and mores of American culture, and worked out a new gendered cultural synthesis which incorporated elements of each." [Author]
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A Gift Given, A Gift Taken : Washing, Anointing, and Blessing the Sick among Mormon Women
B. H. Roberts and the Woodruff Manifesto
Evolution of Ideals for Women in Mormon Periodicals, 1897-1999
Female Ritual Healing in Mormonism
From Men to Boys : LDS Aaronic Priesthood Offices, 1829-1996
History of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from November 1869 to June 1910
Latter-day Saint Women in the Twentieth-Century
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormon Masculinity : Changing Gender Expectations in the Era of Transition from Polygamy to Monogamy, 1890-1920
Mormons, Gender, and the New Commercial Entertainments, 1890-1920
Preaching the Gospel of Church and Sex : Mormon Women's Fiction in the Young Woman's Journal, 1889-1910
Priesthood and Church Government
Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power : Salt Lake City, 1847-1918
Sister Saints : Mormon Women since the End of Polygamy
Sports in Zion : Mormon Recreation, 1890-1940
The 1890s Mormon Culture of Letters and the Post-Manifesto Marriage Crisis : A New Approach to Home Literature
The Mormons' War on Poverty : A History of LDS Welfare 1830-1990
The Power of Godliness : Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology
The Story of 'Mormonism'
The Trials of Apostle John W. Taylor and Matthias F. Cowley
What a Girl Wants : LDS Women's Courtship and Marriage, 1890-1930
Why We Practice Plural Marriage
Women of Covenant : The Story of Relief Society
Women of the 'Mormon' Church