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Good girls, good sex : women talk about church and sexuality Cover Image Book Book

Good girls, good sex : women talk about church and sexuality / Sonya Sharma.

Sharma, Sonya, 1972- (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9781552664384 (pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: 121 p. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Winnipeg : Fernwood Pub., c2011.

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Subject: Women and religion.
Christian women > Sexual behavior.
Sex > Religious aspects > Christianity.

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Acknowledgements 6(1)
1 Good Girls, Good Sex
7(18)
Structuring Christian Women's Sexuality
10(12)
Outline of the Book
22(3)
2 Women and Church Life
25(24)
Identity Formation
26(2)
Intersecting Differences
28(9)
Negotiating Power
37(5)
Belonging Found in Church
42(7)
3 Accountability and Policing
49(14)
Accountability and Community
50(1)
Sex as a Community Decision
51(1)
Policing Sexuality
52(6)
Sex in Marriage Is "Special"; "I Feel Free within that Context"
58(2)
A Church Community that Fits Her Sexuality
60(3)
4 Sexual Transgressions
63(14)
Shame and Guilt, and Being "a Good Christian Girl"
63(1)
Teachings about Sex in Church
64(3)
Embodiment of Shame and Guilt
67(2)
Disembodied Sexuality
69(5)
Leaving Church
74(3)
5 Having the Sex They Want
77(12)
Agency
77(1)
"Waiting Until Marriage Is Not Realistic"
78(2)
Sexuality "Was My Growth Back into Faith and Church"
80(2)
"I See Sex as Something that Should Be Saved for Marriage"
82(2)
"A Bible and a Vibrator": Sex in Marriage
84(3)
Christian Women's Sexuality Is Varied and Complex
87(2)
6 "Watch the Women"
89(14)
On Feminism and Religion
91(5)
On Being a Good Girl
96(2)
On Good Sex
98(3)
Concluding Thoughts
101(2)
Appendix 103(6)
References 109

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