Member Research
PCRC members operate in more than a dozen disciplines and our work appears in both academic and public-facing spheres.
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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.
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.
Female Masturbation as Resistance
Responding to the “harm and damage rhetoric” of purity culture.