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Passionate and Pious: Religious Media and Black Women's Sexuality (Paperback)
Monique Moultrie (author)
£20.99
Paperback
200 Pages /
Published: 15/12/2017
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In Passionate and Pious Monique Moultrie explores the impact of faith-based sexual ministries on black women's sexual agency to trace how these women navigate sexuality, religious authority, and their spiritual walk with God. Providing churchwomen a space to candidly discuss these issues, these popular ministries exist largely beyond the traditional church, with dialogues about sex taking place in chat rooms and through text messages, social media, email, and other media. Moultrie foregrounds televangelist Juanita Bynum's construction of the black Christian sexual identity these ministries promote while emphasizing how churchwomen reconcile these prescriptive identities with their individual experiences. What does it mean for senior women to exercise sexual agency when their church standing could be questioned? What does celibacy mean for women who experience same-sex desire while believing that such desire goes against God's will? Advancing a womanist sexual ethics, Moultrie reframes biblical interpretations and conceptions of what constitutes a healthy relationship to provide a basis for sexual decision making that does not privilege monogamy or deny female pleasure, thereby calling on black churchwomen to experience responsible and life-enhancing sex.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822370048
Number of pages: 200
Weight: 295 g
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
(Starred Review) "A stunning and dynamic sociological read on womanist sexual ethics." -- Sandra Collins * Library Journal *
"This engaging multidisciplinary thought-provoking text will be of interest to academics, educators and researchers. . . . It brings new critical insights/analyses to a topic often considered taboo in these fields." -- Uvanney Maylor * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
"This engaging multidisciplinary thought-provoking text will be of interest to academics, educators and researchers. . . . It brings new critical insights/analyses to a topic often considered taboo in these fields." -- Uvanney Maylor * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
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