Queering the Virgin: Evangelical World-Making and the Heterosexual Crisis
This interpretive essay reads US evangelical purity culture through queer theory demonstrating that the evangelical investment in virginity now produces the evangelical virgin as a politicized subaltern subject position. Aspects of purity culture including purity balls are theorized as undertaking a...
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| Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
2017-01-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11818 |