Virgin nation : sexual purity and American adolescence / Sara Moslener.

  • Moslener, Sara
Date:
[2015]
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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"-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Physical description

x, 219 pages ; 25 cm

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Contents

Introduction: Sexual Purity and National Security -- 1) Sexual Purity and Civilization Work in the 19th Century -- 2) From Adolescence to Lost Innocence: Religious Revival and Sexual Deviance in the Cold War Era -- 3) Making Family Values -- 4) New Purity Revolution -- 5) Performing Sexual Purity in the Media Age -- Conclusion: Fear and Accommodation in the Contemporary Purity Culture -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    TPJ.6
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780199987764
  • 0199987769