mormon gender theology

i talk alot about gender and gender based violence at work.  i also talk about homosexuality, non-linear gender constructions, the kinsey scale, and a host of other things that reframe traditional concepts of gender and force us to see ourselves less as labels and more as magnificent creations of loving heavenly parents!

i spend lots of time trying to reconcile this with the rigid gender roles in the church i adopted when i left Catholicism and its weird thoughts of gender.  so i've been doing some research, but i know i'm missing tons.  can yall help me know what is out there about mormon gender theology?

also, do i have this right?

its seems like there is a movement in the blogernacle to challenge the traditional gender roles and move to a post-heterosexual theology.  The "church members believe in marriage equality, food storage, being prepared for disaster, responding to disasters, education, healthy diets including eschewing tobacco and alcohol and only eating foods that are local and in season."

Wiki page on “Mormon Women”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_Mormonism

Here is a quick bibliography of some of the most scholarly Gender/Mormon work:

• Mormonism Gender and Sexuality
• LDS in the USA: Its Theology of Gender and the Problem of Same-Sex Marriage
• Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology
• The Sources of Gender Role Attitudes among Christian and Muslim Arab-American Women

Scolars:

• Taylor G. Petrey (ThD, MTS Harvard Divinity School) is Assistant Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College, specializing in New Testament and Early Christianity. He also teaches in the Jewish Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality programs.
• A. Lee Beckstead University of Utah Mormon Clients’ Experiences of Conversion Therapy: The Need for a New Treatment Approach 
• “Perspectives were gathered of 50 Mormon individuals who had undergone counseling to change their sexual orientation. The data were analyzed using the constant comparative method and participant verification, thereby developing a grounded theory. A model emerged that depicted participants’ intrapersonal and interpersonal motivations for seeking conversion or “reparative” therapy, their perceived benefits and harms of such interventions, and the factors that facilitated self-acceptance and consolidation of a positive self-identity. Based on these descriptions, this study provides the foundation for a broader-based treatment approach (besides one focused solely on changing sexual orientation or adopting a lesbian, gay, or bisexual identity), which is designed to produce individualized congruent solutions for religiously conflicted, same-sex-attracted clients.

please feel free to comment or email me at teabelly@gmail.com

any help would be greatly appreciated.  i'm trying to pitch a cool idea, but i want to be sure i don't step on any toes!!!