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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

gender, LDS men, masculinity-making, religion, LDS women

College

Humanities

Department

English

Abstract

Studies in masculinity have grown significantly in the last decades as conversations concerning gender have become more conscious of the meanings and constructions of gender in men’s experiences. Masculinity studies at its core questions the assumption that men have already achieved gender equality. Rather than blanketing all men into categories of privilege, patriarchy, or even neutrality, it seeks to give more nuance to men’s experiences and the transactional nature of their masculinity in the world around them. Latter-day Saint feminists have considered differences between men’s and women’s experiences and voices an important topic. The importance of women’s narratives as a separate voice, one distinct from the standard male voice, has been an important narrative in LDS feminism. However, I feel that LDS men’s experiences have not been established—not in terms of LDS manhood or identity. The archives of LDS women’s experiences, such as Claudia Bushman’s work with the Claremont Mormon Women’s Oral History collection, are concerned with how LDS women have experienced gender. There is not a complement set of male gender narratives, which is needed in the current gender discussion.

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