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Virginity for Sexpo 2024
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Updated February 13, 2024
University of Victoria Libraries
Tina Bebbington, History and Newspaper Librarian, UVic
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The purity myth : how America's obsession with virginity is hurting young women
Valenti, Jessica.
Paper Book
The United States is obsessed with virginity -- from the media to schools to government agencies. In The Purity Myth Jessica Valenti argues that the country's intense focus on chastity is damaging to young women. Through in-depth cultural and social analysis, Valenti reveals that powerful...
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Purity and danger : an analysis of the concepts of pollution and taboo
Douglas, Mary
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Virgin nation : sexual purity and American adolescence
Moslener, Sara
Paper Book
First taking hold of the American cultural imagination in the 1990s, the sexual purity movement of contemporary evangelicalism has since received considerable attention from a wide range of media outlets, religious leaders, and feminist critics. Virgin Nation offers a history of this movement that...
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Regulating desire : from the virtuous maiden to the purity princess
Ehrlich, J. Shoshanna
Paper Book
Starting with the mid-nineteenth-century campaign by the American Female Moral Reform Society to criminalize seduction and moving forward to the late twentieth-century conservative effort to codify a national abstinence-only education policy, Regulating Desire explores the legal regulation of...
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