03828cam a2200325 4500 596477222 TxAuBib 20220729120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781508265726 1508265720 3711dd6e-ad52-488b-9972-932819f93c1f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3900779 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Klein, Linda Kay. Pure [Libby] : Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2018. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 246MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 246MB. HTML:<b>In <i>Pure,</i> Linda Kay Klein uses a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir to take us "inside religious purity culture as only one who grew up in it can" (Gloria Steinem) and reveals the devastating effects evangelical Christianity's views on female sexuality has had on a generation of young women.</b><br /> In the 1990s, a "purity industry" emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with a dangerous message: girls are potential sexual "stumbling blocks" for boys and men, and any expression of a girl's sexuality could reflect the corruption of her character. This message traumatized many girls—resulting in anxiety, fear, and experiences that mimicked the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder—and trapped them in a cycle of shame.<br /> <br /> This is the sex education Linda Kay Klein grew up with.<br /> <br /> Fearing being marked a Jezebel, Klein broke up with her high school boyfriend because she thought God told her to and took pregnancy tests despite being a virgin, terrified that any sexual activity would be punished with an out-of-wedlock pregnancy. When the youth pastor of her church was convicted of sexual enticement of a twelve-year-old girl, Klein began to question purity-based sexual ethics. She contacted young women she knew, asking if they were coping with the same shame-induced issues she was. These intimate conversations developed into a twelve-year quest that took her across the country and into the lives of women raised in similar religious communities—a journey that facilitated her own healing and led her to churches that are seeking a new way to reconcile sexuality and spirituality.<br /> <br /> <i>Pure</i> is <i>"</i>a revelation... Part memoir and part journalism, <i>Pure</i> is a horrendous, granular, relentless, emotionally true account" (The Cut) of society's larger subjugation of women and the role the purity industry played in maintaining it. Offering a prevailing message of resounding hope and encouragement, "<i>Pure</i> emboldens us to escape toxic misogyny and experience a fresh breath of freedom" (Glennon Doyle, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Love Warrior</i> and founder of Together Rising). Nonfiction. Biography & Autobiography. Christian Nonfiction. Religion & Spirituality. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-29 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/3900779-Pure.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3711dd6e-ad52-488b-9972-932819f93c1f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/3900779-Pure.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3711dd6e-ad52-488b-9972-932819f93c1f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)