Item Detail
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33145
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English
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Trans and Mutable Bodies
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Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
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London
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Routledge
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539-552
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"This chapter will explore Mormon theologies of embodiment with an eye to understanding how Mormon practice handles body modification, focusing primarily on those body modifications involved in medical procedures undergone and medications taken by transgender individuals. That is, this chapter will explore a important intersection between Mormonism’s theology of embodiment and its theology of gender. This exploration will reveal that the existence of transgender folk poses a problem for orthodox LDS theology. In the first section, I will give a brief overview of the transgender phenomenon and the nature of medical transitioning, including the role played by gender confirmation surgery (GCS). In the second section, I will identify some of the theological foundations of Mormonism’s materialism and its connection to the theology of sex and gender, showing where lacunae and tensions exist in the orthodoxy as it stands. In the final section, I will explore several of the heterodox theologies of gender from within the LDS fold and identify an alternative Mormon theology of embodiment that would suggest a trans-friendly approach to the body and gender. " [Author]
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