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Seeking the Straight and Narrow (Paperback)
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Seeking the Straight and Narrow (Paperback)
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Losing weight and changing your sexual orientation are both
notoriously difficult to do successfully. Yet many faithful
evangelical Christians believe that thinness and heterosexuality
are godly ideals - and that God will provide reliable paths toward
them for those who fall short. "Seeking the Straight and Narrow" is
a fascinating account of the world of evangelical efforts to alter
our strongest bodily desires. Drawing on fieldwork at First Place,
a popular Christian weight-loss program, and Exodus International,
a network of ex-gay ministries, Lynne Gerber explores why some
Christians feel that being fat or gay offends God, what exactly
they do to lose weight or go straight, and how they make sense of
the program's results - or, frequently, their lack. Gerber notes
the differences and striking parallels between the two programs,
and, more broadly, she traces the ways that other social
institutions have attempted to contain the excesses associated with
fatness and homosexuality. Challenging narratives that place
evangelicals in constant opposition to dominant American values,
Gerber shows that these programs reflect the often overlooked
connection between American cultural obsessions and Christian ones.
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