LKK: Where do I even start! Core to purity culture is a concept called “complementarianism.” This is the teaching that men and women are equal in God’s eyes, but were designed to “complement” one another here on earth in a very particular way: Men were designed to be stereotypically “masculine” leaders, and women their stereotypically “feminine” supporters. JB: Why is the ongoing effect of the purity culture a feminist issue? I spoke to Linda about her book and her activist work. at Women and Children First, you can catch Linda in conversation with Deborah Jian Lee, author of Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism. Linda also interviewed several dozen women and others with similar backgrounds about the lasting impact of the purity movement’s toxic messaging around sex, relationships, and gender. She writes about it in her new book Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free. Linda Kay Klein was a teenager then, raised in the evangelical church during the height of the movement. Chief among them was “True Love Waits,” an organization that created an abstinence pledge signed by over 2.5 million young people throughout the decade. Rooted in the evangelical church, the movement was comprised of various individuals, nonprofit organizations and church groups. In the 1990s, the Purity Movement spread across the United States encouraging young people to remain abstinent until marriage.
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