Making Chastity Sexy : The Rhetoric of Evangelical Abstinence Campaigns / Christine J. Gardner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gardner, Christine J., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex instruction for teenagers--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Sexual abstinence--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Sexual abstinence--Study and teaching--United States.

Teenagers--Sexual behavior--United States.

Sexual abstinence--Christianity--Religious aspects--United States.

Sexual abstinence.

Teenagers--Sexual behavior.

Teenagers.

Sex instruction for teenagers.

Local Subjects:

Sex instruction for teenagers--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Sexual abstinence--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Sexual abstinence--Study and teaching--United States.

Teenagers--Sexual behavior--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Even though they are immersed in sex-saturated society, millions of teens are pledging to remain virgins until their wedding night. How are evangelical Christians persuading young people to wait until marriage? Christine J. Gardner looks closely at the language of the chastity movement and discovers a savvy campaign that uses sex to "sell" abstinence. Drawing from interviews with evangelical leaders and teenagers, she examines the strategy to shift from a negative "just say no" approach to a positive one: "just say yes" to great sex within marriage. Making Chastity Sexy sheds new light on an abstinence campaign that has successfully recast a traditionally feminist idea-"my body, my choice"-into a powerful message, but one that Gardner suggests may ultimately reduce evangelicalism's transformative power. Focusing on the United States, her study also includes a comparative dimension by examining the export of this evangelical agenda to sub-Saharan Africa.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abstinence, AIDS, and Evangelicals: An Introduction

1. From Abstinence to Purity: The Changing Tropes of Chastity

2. Of Purity Rings and Pop Stars: Using Sex to Sell Abstinence

3. "Someday My Prince Will Come": The Fairy-tale Narrative and Female Power

4. Disciplining Sexuality: How American Evangelical Youth Are Committing to Abstinence-and Sticking with It

5. The Fractured Fairy Tale: When True Love Doesn't Wait

6. Fearing God, Not AIDS: Abstinence in Africa

7. The Condom Conflict: Saving Lives or Promoting Promiscuity?

8. What's Not So Great about Great Sex

Appendix: List of Campaign Leaders

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613278616

9781283278614

1283278618

9780520950559

0520950550

OCLC:

739104365