Ph.D. candidate Mihee Kim-Kort recently wrote a teaching module on Asian women, Christianity, and American Purity Culture. She writes, “Through and engagement of the discourses of evangelical purity culture we can see how the figure of the Asian woman in Asia and in diaspora, particularly in the U.S., acts as a canvas on which expectations and anxieties around domesticity, sexuality, and the nation-state converge to produce more than a scapegoat, but a particular objecthood and aesthetic that evokes a racialized femininity.” Read it in its entirety.
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