Pure inside the Evangelical movement that shamed a generation of young women and how I broke free
From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity's purity culture has had on a generation of young women--in a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir. In the 1990s, a "purity industry" emerge...
| Main Author: | Klein, Linda Kay (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,
2018.
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| Edition: | First Touchstone hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Movement I: The stumbling blocks
- Sin, psychosis, or system
- The lie
- Pure destruction
- Sexual violence, classified
- Movement II: Stumbling through church
- Man-made girls
- The virgin
- The tigress
- Family values
- The stained-glass ceiling
- Movement III: Stumbling out of church
- Trapped
- Frozen
- The G(od) spot
- Dementor
- Movement IV: How we get over
- Going home
- The no shame movement
- Sanctuary.