Christians Under Covers: Evangelicals and Sexual Pleasure on the Internet (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520286320)

Christians under Covers shifts how scholars and popular media talk about religious conservatives and sex. Moving away from debates over homosexuality, premarital sex, and other perceived sexual sins, Kelsy Burke examines Christian sexuality websites to show how some evangelical Christians use digital media to promote the idea that God wants married, heterosexual couples to have satisfying sex lives. These evangelicals maintain their religious beliefs while incorporating feminist and queer language into their talk of sexuality--encouraging sexual knowledge, emphasizing women's pleasure, and justifying marginal sexual practices within Christian marriages. This illuminating ethnography complicates the boundaries between normal and subversive, empowered and oppressed, and sacred and profane.

Author: Kelsy Burke
ISBN-10: 0520286324
ISBN-13: 9780520286320
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 02/09/2016
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2017