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The After Purity Project Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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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.

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Book Cover for: God Gave Us The Right: Conservative Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, and Orthodox Jewish Women Grapple with Feminism, Christel Manning

God Gave Us The Right: Conservative Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, and Orthodox Jewish Women Grapple with Feminism

Christel Manning
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@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
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Book Cover for: Women Talking, Miriam Toews

Women Talking

Miriam Toews
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@ardenthistorian Women Talking, Miriam Toews

Paperback, 2020

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, & American Law, Fay Botham

Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, & American Law

Fay Botham
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@janehongphd @UNC_Press Fay Botham, Almighty God Created the Races

Paperback, 2013

$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity, R. Marie Griffith

Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity

R. Marie Griffith
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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
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Book Cover for: God's Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission, R. Marie Griffith

God's Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission

R. Marie Griffith
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@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
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Book Cover for: A Complicated Choice: Making Space for Grief and Healing in the Pro-Choice Movement, Katey Zeh

A Complicated Choice: Making Space for Grief and Healing in the Pro-Choice Movement

Katey Zeh
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@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
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Book Cover for: White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color, Ruby Hamad

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

Ruby Hamad
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@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

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Carol Anderson

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Carol Anderson
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@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
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Book Cover for: Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights, Heather R. White

Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights

Heather R. White
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@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
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Book Cover for: Rainbow Theology: Bridging Race, Sexuality, and Spirit, Patrick S. Cheng

Rainbow Theology: Bridging Race, Sexuality, and Spirit

Patrick S. Cheng
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@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
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