Christians under covers : evangelicals and sexual pleasure on the Internet /

Christians under covers : evangelicals and sexual pleasure on the Internet /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Burke, Kelsy, 1985- author.
Imprint:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	1 online resource : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Christians -- Sexual behavior -- United States. Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Internet -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Sex in mass media. Christians -- Sexual behavior. Internet -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Sex in mass media. Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11755546

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ISBN:	9780520961586 0520961587 9780520286320 9780520286337 0520286324 0520286332
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"Christians under Covers shifts how scholars and popular media talk about religious conservatives and sex. In an ethnography drawn from Christian sexuality websites, Kelsy Burke examines how some evangelical Christians use digital media to promote the idea that God wants married, heterosexual couples to have satisfying sex lives. These evangelicals maintain their religious beliefs while incorporating feminist and queer language into their talk of sexuality--encouraging sexual knowledge, emphasizing women's pleasure, and justifying marginal sexual practices within Christian marriages. This book complicates boundaries between normal and subversive, empowered and oppressed, and sacred and profane"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Print version: Burke, Kelsy, 1985- Christians under covers 9780520286320
Standard no.:	40025773019

Table of Contents:

Godly sex : a new evangelical sexual logic
Overcoming the obscene : using religion to talk about sex
Virtual and virtuous : forming online religious communities
Sexual awakening : defining women's pleasures
What makes a man : making "bad" sex "good"
Conclusion : paths of desire
Appendix A : websites mentioned by name in the book
Appendix B: doing internet ethnography.