Wednesday, January 09, 2013

The Purity Myth


Sounds like a great dvd to get hold of. Here is their blurb.
This alternately hilarious and infuriating new film adaptation of pioneering feminist blogger Jessica Valenti’s bestselling book makes a powerful case that evangelical Christians, right-wing politicians, and conservative activists have been using irrational fears around young women’s sexuality to undermine women’s autonomy and roll back women’s rights. In a wide-ranging analysis that moves from ‘purity balls’ and the abstinence movement to right-wing attacks on Planned Parenthood and women’s reproductive health care, Valenti targets the persistent patriarchal assumption that men know what’s best for women — and that a woman’s worth depends on what she does, or does not do, sexually. 


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