Raising Sexually Pure Kids: Sexual Abstinence, Conservative Christians and American Politics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789042026780)

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.

Author: Claire Greslé-Favier
ISBN-10: 9042026782
ISBN-13: 9789042026780
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2009
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.10w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 146