For the Love of Love: Neoliberal Governmentality, Neoliberal Melancholy, Critical Intersectionality, and the Advent of Solidarity with the Other Mormons

Journal of Homosexuality

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 912-937

  Lee, Wenshu ^a  

^a LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

activism; Catholic Church; critical intersectionality; D. Michael Quinn; deep participation; love; Mormon Church; mourning; neoliberal governmentality; neoliberal melancholy; political loss; Proposition 8; same sex marriage; subjection; subjectivation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GRIEF; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LOVE; MARRIAGE; POLITICS; PUBLIC OPINION; RELIGION; SOCIAL CHANGE; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; CATHOLICISM; CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS; GRIEF; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; LOVE; MARRIAGE; POLITICS; PUBLIC OPINION; RELIGION; SOCIAL CHANGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865512459     PISSN: 00918369     EISSN: 15403602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2012.699830     Document Type: Article

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