Virgin nation
Subtitle: sexual purity and American adolescence
By: Sara Moslener
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780199987764
Subjects: Virginity; History; Social movements; Conduct of life; Values; Christianity; Sex
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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Sexual Purity and National Security; title: 1) Sexual Purity and Civilization Work in the 19th Century; title: 2) From Adolescence to Lost Innocence: Religious Revival and Sexual Deviance in the Cold War Era; title: 3) Making Family Values; title: 4) New Purity Revolution; title: 5) Performing Sexual Purity in the Media Age; title: Conclusion: Fear and Accommodation in the Contemporary Purity Culture.