Item Detail
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33139
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6
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English
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Mormon Masculinity, Family, and Kava in the Pacific
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Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
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London
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Routledge
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449-463
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“This chapter begins with a brief introduction to kava and the ambiguity of kava’s place within Mormonism. We explore the negotiation between dominant constructs of masculinity with Moana Mormon nuances. We then offer a background of differing views of family between those introduced by ‘the West’ and reinforced through Mormonism, alongside some of the Indigenous ideas of family across the Moana. We conclude with a discussion of how contested constructs of family and masculinity are negotiated within Mormon kava settings. We argue that although Mormon Moana kava events can reinforce hegemonic constructs of patriarchal social orders, they are also sites that subvert elements of masculinity and expand narrow definitions of family as exclusively nuclear or anthropocentric. Mormon men who participate in kava events engage in meaningful homosocial relationships and demonstrate evolving definitions of Indigenous kinship.” [Author]
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