Article Title：Higher education and the negotiated process of hegemony - Embedded resistance among Mormon women
Abstract：
This article examines how 20 female college students who identified as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) negotiated its gender ideology to legitimate their educational goals. The young LDS women creatively employed equality, professionalism, and essentialist discourses to craft a coherent identity as a good LDS woman that incorporated their pursuit of higher education. Beyond providing an in-depth look at how college-age LDS women do gender, the analysis informs our understanding of the persistence of women's participation in patriarchal religious institutions, the process of women's resistance, and women's role in the negotiated process of hegemony. The authors argue that while women embrace the LDS gender ideology of womanhood, their pursuit of higher education is a form of resistance-embedded resistance-often neglected by scholars. The findings suggest the importance of nomos and meaning in understanding women's participation in and manipulation of patriarchal religious institutions.
Keywords: gender; religion; education; resistance; hegemony
DOI: 10.1177/0891243203017003007
Source：GENDER & SOCIETY
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