"Raising sexually pure kids"
Subtitle: sexual abstinence, conservative Christians and American politics
By: Claire Greslé-Favier
Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries -- v. 59
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9789042026780
Subjects: Sexualerziehung; Sex instruction; Christentum; Sexual abstinence; Christianity; Sexualunterdrückung; Sozialpolitik; Konservativismus; Sexuelle Abstinenz; Christian conservatism
Description: "Raising Sexually Pure Kids: Sexual Abstinence, Conservative Christians and American Politics analyzes pro-abstinence discourses issued by the conservative Christian community and the G.W. Bush administration, to underline that abstinence is not a peripheral matter, but is a cultural and political issue of great significance in US society, especially in the past decade. This book seeks to bring to light how pro-abstinence discourses coalesce most of the core agendas of conservative Christians - like creationism. parental rights or the culture war - and enabled them and the Bush administration, to on the one hand, preserve traditional hierarchies and on the other hand, maintain the sense of threat necessary to the protection of the status quo and to the enduring commitment of the conservative Christian constituency."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-276).