The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender

Introduction Part I: Methodological issues 1. Gender and culture in a global church 2. Race and gender in Mormonism: 1830-1978 3. Intersectionality 4. Feminities 5. Masculinities Part II: Historical approaches 6. Joseph Smith, plural marriage, and kinship 7. Mormon gender in the age of polygamy 8. Mormon women and scripture in the nineteenth century 9. Mormonism, gender, and art in nineteenth-century Scandinavia 10. Mormon gender in the progressive era 11. Mormon gender in the mid-twentieth century 12. Mormon feminism after 1970 13. Gender and missionary work 14. Homosexuality and therapeutic culture in Mormonism 15. Homosexuality and politics in Mormonism 16. Mormon LGBTQ organizing and organizations 17. Mormonism, gender, and art 18. Mormon literature and gender 19. Sexual purity and its discontents in Mormonism 20. Mormonism and sexual violence Part III: Social scientific approaches 21. Women and religious organizations: a "microbiological" approach to influence 22. Global Mormon perspectives and experiences of family structures 23. Structures of home and family: North America 24. Non-traditional families 25. Social science perspectives on gender and Mormon orthodoxy 26. Gender and mental health in Mormon contexts 27. Women's gender roles and Mormonism in England 28. Institutional gender negotiations within Irish Mormon congregations 29. Peruvian Mormon matchmaking: the limits of Mormon endogamy at Zion's border 30. Mormon women at work in Nicaragua 31. Mormon masculinity, family, and kava in the Pacific 32. Gendered dynamics and institutions within Nigerian Mormonism Part IV: Theological approaches 33. Scripture and gender 34. Theology of the family 35. Theology of sexuality 36. Queer Mormons 37. Trans and mutable bodies 38. Feminism and Heavenly Mother 39. Women and the priesthood 40. Men and the priesthood 41. Mujerista theology Index