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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| description | 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 an unexpectedly queer world making project. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a3cf6c5d608242baa20f4588b9f0fc7b2025-01-06T09:08:00ZengEuropean Association for American StudiesEuropean Journal of American Studies1991-93362017-01-0111310.4000/ejas.11818Queering the Virgin: Evangelical World-Making and the Heterosexual CrisisJennifer MillerThis 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 an unexpectedly queer world making project.https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11818queerevangelicalvirginityworld makingheterosexuality |
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