The After Purity Project Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The After Purity Project collects and situates stories about purity culture within the broader history of evangelicalism, race, sexuality, and U.S. politics.

God Gave Us The Right: Conservative Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, and Orthodox Jewish Women Grapple with Feminism
Christel Manning
@bethallisonbarr @anxious_bench This is a topic I've taught many times. Crystal Manning's book God Gave us the Right and R. Marie Griffith's book God's Daughter's: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission are great sources for addressing this question.
Paperback, 1999
$36.95$18.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Women Talking
Miriam Toews
@ardenthistorian Women Talking, Miriam Toews
Paperback, 2020
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, & American Law
Fay Botham
@janehongphd @UNC_Press Fay Botham, Almighty God Created the Races
Paperback, 2013
$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity
R. Marie Griffith
To anyone who has ever had to listen to fat phobia from the pulpit I HIGHLY recommend recommend the book Born Again Bodies by @RMarieGriffith which demonstrates how white Protestants use food, health and body size as a proxy for morality. https://t.co/UB81ja6c6a
Paperback, 2004
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
God's Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission
R. Marie Griffith
@bethallisonbarr @anxious_bench This is a topic I've taught many times. Crystal Manning's book God Gave us the Right and R. Marie Griffith's book God's Daughter's: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission are great sources for addressing this question.
Paperback, 2000
$33.95$16.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Complicated Choice: Making Space for Grief and Healing in the Pro-Choice Movement
Katey Zeh
@audacityinblack Yes! Katey Zeh's book A Complicated Choice address this so beautifully. I've also been thinking about how we need to think about abortions stories using the framework of religious trauma.
Hardcover, 2022
$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
Ruby Hamad
@BradleyOnishi Subsequently the ideal of white womanhood was used to promote national expansion (ie manifest destiny.) I see the origins of WCN in European settler-colonialism. According to Hamad’s book White Tears/ Brown Scars idealized white womanhood was used to promote numerous colonial
Paperback, 2020
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Carol Anderson
@irobyn Reading White Rage by Carol Anderson, Candace Benbow’s Red-Lip Theology and Lillian Smith’s Killer’s of the Dream.
Paperback, 2017
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights
Heather R. White
@smithmj303 Tabernacles of Clay by Taylor Petrie. Reforming Sodom by Heather White. Anything by Mark Jordan. Rainbow Theology by Patrick Cheng. Lots of stuff on the MCC. Anything by Melissa Wilcox.
Paperback, 2015
$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rainbow Theology: Bridging Race, Sexuality, and Spirit
Patrick S. Cheng
@smithmj303 Tabernacles of Clay by Taylor Petrie. Reforming Sodom by Heather White. Anything by Mark Jordan. Rainbow Theology by Patrick Cheng. Lots of stuff on the MCC. Anything by Melissa Wilcox.
Paperback, 2013
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book