Elizabeth Gish
Biographic Data
| ID | 3892576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Gish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Gish |
| SIGNATURE | GISH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Kentucky University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
When purity cannot save us: On matter out of place and democratic hope
This study contextualizes U.S. evangelical Christian sexual purity rhetoric in a long tradition of purity frameworks that attempt to properly order the world, manage “dirt,” and prevent “matter out of place.” Purity rhetoric is dependent on the idea that there is a proper way that communities and the world should be ordered, and that people should play specific roles and embody specific subjectivities within this order. This fixation on keeping a…
Producing High Priests and Princesses: The Father-Daughter Relationship in the Christian Sexual Purity Movement
This article describes and analyzes father-daughter purity balls in the context of the contemporary U.S. American conservative Christian sexual purity movement, with an emphasis on taking the self-understanding of those involved in the movement into account. It shows the ways that the idealization of a hierarchical father-daughter relationship both constructs and reflects sexual purity ideals. The Christian sexual purity teachings frame this fath…
Living Well Together
Over the past two years, we have designed and team-taught a course called Citizen and Self which was created in order to counter simplistic narratives about young people, democracy, social change, and citizenship that often saturate popular media and, too often, the halls of the academy. Citizen and Self is the first part of a developing curriculum in the Honors College at Western Kentucky University, where we taught together for two years.1 We h…
Producing High Priests and Princesses: The Father-Daughter Relationship in the Christian Sexual Purity Movement
This article describes and analyzes father-daughter purity balls in the context of the contemporary U.S. American conservative Christian sexual purity movement, with an emphasis on taking the self-understanding of those involved in the movement into account. It shows the ways that the idealization of a hierarchical father-daughter relationship both constructs and reflects sexual purity ideals. The Christian sexual purity teachings frame this fath…
Living Well Together
Over the past two years, we have designed and team-taught a course called Citizen and Self which was created in order to counter simplistic narratives about young people, democracy, social change, and citizenship that often saturate popular media and, too often, the halls of the academy. Citizen and Self is the first part of a developing curriculum in the Honors College at Western Kentucky University, where we taught together for two years.1 We h…
Producing High Priests and Princesses: The Father-Daughter Relationship in the Christian Sexual Purity Movement
This article describes and analyzes father-daughter purity balls in the context of the contemporary U.S. American conservative Christian sexual purity movement, with an emphasis on taking the self-understanding of those involved in the movement into account. It shows the ways that the idealization of a hierarchical father-daughter relationship both constructs and reflects sexual purity ideals. The Christian sexual purity teachings frame this fath…
When purity cannot save us: On matter out of place and democratic hope
This study contextualizes U.S. evangelical Christian sexual purity rhetoric in a long tradition of purity frameworks that attempt to properly order the world, manage “dirt,” and prevent “matter out of place.” Purity rhetoric is dependent on the idea that there is a proper way that communities and the world should be ordered, and that people should play specific roles and embody specific subjectivities within this order. This fixation on keeping a…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Theological Perspectives and Practices (2 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · Business (1 works)