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Growing up Pure : White Girls, Queer Teens, and the Racial Foundations of Purity Culture / Lauren D. Sawyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sawyer, Lauren D., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- White people--Race identity--United States.
- White people.
- Autonomy (Psychology) in adolescence.
- Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Sex.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii,194 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "By arguing that young people are moral and sexual agents, Growing Up Pure pushes against the prevailing narrative that white youth-especially girls and queer youth-are always only victims within evangelical purity culture"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- What we talk about when we talk about purity culture
- Defining childhood and adolescence
- Purity panics and young people's "nation-saving" role in U.S. social history
- Reimagining adolescent sexuality and agency
- Reading adolescent narratives against the norms of purity culture
- Toward a post-purity sexual ethic.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781479838479
- 1-4798-3847-0
- OCLC:
- 1545525607
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