Ashley Hudson 2/19/26 Ashley Hudson 2/19/26

Postpartum as a site of sexual script renegotiation and intensification among women socialised within purity culture

This interview study examined how postpartum women socialised within the Purity Culture Movement (PCM) in the USA navigated inherited sexual scripts during the transition to motherhood.

Lauren D. Sawyer 12/12/25 Lauren D. Sawyer 12/12/25

Growing Up Pure

This book examines the shaping of purity culture in the United States, looking specifically at the experiences of white youth. It shows that white girls and white queer youth were vulnerable to the purity movement, but that they were also complicit in its white supremacist oppressive structure.

Tessi Muskrat 7/1/25 Tessi Muskrat 7/1/25

“Being Yourself is a Sin”

The present study uses a critical feminist lens to explore the experiences of sexual minority (SM) women, and assigned female at birth (AFAB) people raised and socialized as women in purity culture.

Victoria Houser 10/23/24 Victoria Houser 10/23/24

Your Misogyny is Not a Cultural Difference

Constellating transnational stories of religious gender-based violence and feminist resistance.

Karly Poyner-Smith 7/21/24 Karly Poyner-Smith 7/21/24

“You Are Not the Victim Here”

Conspirituality and the Framing of Evangelical Patriarchy as a Victim of #ChurchToo Disruption

Karly Poyner-Smith 6/1/24 Karly Poyner-Smith 6/1/24

Rhetorics of Impurities

ExVangelicalism as Excavating and Encountering Purity

Rebekah Vickery 4/9/24 Rebekah Vickery 4/9/24

Graham Crackers and Good Girls

A historical and theoretical case for expanding the conceptual reach of purity culture’s control of bodies assigned female at birth.

Liv Schultz 4/2/24 Liv Schultz 4/2/24

Navigating Evangelical Affect

Convictions, Promises, and Dissonance in Adolescent Adherence to Purity Teachings

Tessi Muskrat 4/2/24 Tessi Muskrat 4/2/24

The Space Between

Liminal time within purity culture.

Lauren D. Sawyer 3/29/24 Lauren D. Sawyer 3/29/24

Purity culture and the limits of queer evangelicalism

This article examines the connection between the recent emergence of queer evangelical celibacy narratives and the rhetoric of purity as a form of personal freedom.