Virgin Nation

Description:

"Sara Moslener sheds light on the contemporary purity movement by examining how earlier movements established the rhetorical and moral frameworks utilized by two of today's leading purity organizations, True Loves Waits and Silver Ring Thing. Her investigation reveals that purity work over the last two centuries has developed in concert with widespread fears of changing traditional gender roles and sexual norms, national decline, and global apocalypse"--

subjects: Virginity,  History,  Social movements,  Conduct of life,  Values,  Christianity,  Sex,  Sex, religious aspects, christianity,  Chastity,  Sexual abstinence,  Social values,  RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies,  RELIGION / Christian Life / General,  RELIGION / Christianity / History

Places: United States