Making chastity sexy: The rhetoric of evangelical abstinence campaigns

Making Chastity Sexy: The Rhetoric of Evangelical Abstinence Campaigns

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  Gardner, Christine J ^a  

^a WHEATON COLLEGE   (United States)

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