The Mormon Conception of Women’s Nature and Role: A Feminist Analysis
This paper explores the ways in which women’s nature has been defined as different from men’s in Mormonism. Unlike many mainstream Christian traditions, Mormons have a positive view of the Fall and of Eve, do not embrace the doctrine of original sin, and reject dualities which assign women to lower...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Sage
2014
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| En: |
Feminist theology
Año: 2014, Volumen: 22, Número: 2, Páginas: 186-202 |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Women
B Nature B Gender Roles B Mormonism |
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| Sumario: | This paper explores the ways in which women’s nature has been defined as different from men’s in Mormonism. Unlike many mainstream Christian traditions, Mormons have a positive view of the Fall and of Eve, do not embrace the doctrine of original sin, and reject dualities which assign women to lower bodily categories in opposition to men’s higher rational ones. However, women in Mormonism are subordinated to men. This subordination is due, not to a sense that men are superior to women, but to a sense that man’s distinct role is to be leader in church and family. This sense of the propriety of role differentiation coexists with romantic notions of women’s greater natural spirituality and altruism. In the last section of the paper, I discuss the ways in which feminist Mormons have critiqued the notions of gender role differentiation and women’s greater spiritual capacities. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5189 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Feminist theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0966735013507856 |