Pure to purpose pipeline: socializing purity in white women’s international aid work
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- McGrath, Jennifer
- Source
- Theology and Sexuality; September 2023, Vol. 29 Issue: 2-3 p130-147, 18p
- Subject
- Language
- ISSN
- 13558358; 17455170
ABSTRACTPurity Culture’s rhetorical positioning of those socialized as young, White women of goodand innocentsexual objects created somatic experiences of traumatic shame and dissociation for those inhabiting this location. This experience is inextricably linked to the affective responses that produced compulsive international aid involvement as attempts to maintain the role of young, White womanhood within Christian Nationalism.