Pure

By Linda Kay Klein,

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Book description

From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity's purity culture has had on a generation of young women-in a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir.

In the 1990s, a "purity industry" emerged out of the white evangelical…


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