I'm Not Your Stereotypical Mormon Girl: Mormon Women's Gendered Resistance
Research on women in gender-traditional religions has shown that women often exercise agency within the gendered confines of their religious institutions. This paper builds on the growing literature on women's agency in gender-traditional religions by exploring whether and why some active Mormo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
[2018]
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| In: |
Review of religious research
Year: 2018, Volume: 60, Issue: 2, Pages: 161-181 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mormon Church
/ Woman
/ Gender-specific role
/ Resistance
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KDH Christian sects NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Resistance
B LDS B Mormon B Gender B Power |
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| Summary: | Research on women in gender-traditional religions has shown that women often exercise agency within the gendered confines of their religious institutions. This paper builds on the growing literature on women's agency in gender-traditional religions by exploring whether and why some active Mormon women resist the gendered expectations of their faith more strongly than others. Drawing on interviews with women members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS Church, Mormon), we find that eight of the 30 women interviewed strongly resisted traditional Mormon gender expectations. We then explore their patterns of resistance and provide possible explanations for why they resist gender traditionalism more than the other participants. We discuss the wider implications of our findings, including a call for further examinations of the ways in which women's religious experiences include both accommodation and resistance to traditional ideas about gender. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s13644-017-0324-3 |