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English
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Mormon Gender in the Mid-Twentieth Century
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Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
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London
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Routledge
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143-156
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"While nineteenth-century polygamy continues to be associated with the Latter-day Saints, that social arrangement did not last long enough or was widespread enough to mold Latter-day Saint culture. Even the patriarchal pioneer is more a figment of the imagination than of historical reality. Contemporary gender roles in Mormonism are much more indebted to the 1950s when aging church leaders reached back into their own childhoods to forcefully articulate appropriate behavioral patterns at the precise time when American society was undergoing sweeping change. It is the tenacious quality of mid-century Mormonism, especially regarding sexuality and motherhood, which endures." [Author]