Christine Talbot

CHRISTINE TALBOT ([email protected]) is an associate professor of gender studies at the University of Northern Colorado. She published her first book, A Foreign Kingdom: Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852–1890, in 2013 and has since published articles and book chapters examining sexuality in Mormon history. She teaches courses in gender studies, feminist and queer theory, and the history of feminism in the United States.

Gendering Mormon Studies—At Last! Amy Hoyt and Taylor G. Petrey, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 4

Women’s and gender studies emerged out of the women’s and sexual liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, movements the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vigorously opposed. The so-called New Mormon History flourished around the same time, opening the field to new approaches