Making chastity sexy the rhetoric of evangelical abstinence campaigns / [electronic resource] :
Christine J. Gardner.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
- xii, 249 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From abstinence to purity : the changing tropes of chastity -- Of purity rings and pop stars : using sex to sell abstinence -- "Someday my prince will come" : the fairy-tale narrative and female power -- Disciplining sexuality : how American evangelical youth are committing to abstinence and sticking with it -- The fractured fairy tale : when true love doesn't wait -- Fearing God, not AIDS : abstinence in Africa -- The condom conflict : saving lives or promoting promiscuity? -- What's not so great about great sex -- Appendix A : U.S. interview list -- Appendix B : Africa interview list.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Sexual abstinence--Religious aspects--Christianity. Sexual abstinence--Study and teaching--United States. Teenagers--Sexual behavior--United States. Sex instruction for teenagers--Religious aspects--Christianity.