Religion and Reproductive Justice
True Love Waits with Sarah Hedgecock and Sara Moslener
March 10, 2025
This seminar was a feedback discussion on a chapter from Sarah Hedgecock’s book-in-progress, Good Christian Girls: Nostalgia and the Making of Evangelical Girlhood, moderated by Sara Moslener of Central Michigan University.
The chapter examines True Love Waits and the evangelical abstinence movement in the 1990s and early 2000s, looking at the impact of purity culture on evangelical understandings of the meaning and purpose of girlhood.
Dr. Sarah Hedgecock is the Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellow at Tulane. She received her Ph.D. in religion from Columbia University in 2024 and is currently working on her first book. Dr. Sara Moslener is a writer, researcher, and lecturer at Central Michigan University. She is the author of Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence, and her forthcoming book, After Purity: Race, Sex, and Religion in White Christian America, will be released in July.
Wholeness, Holiness, and Healthcare: A Faithful Conversation on Reproductive Justice, Rights, and Health
March 10, 2025
This event brought together students, faith leaders, and community advocates to discuss how our faith traditions, or belief systems not based in religion, relate to the reproductive justice, rights, and health movements. In our time together, we worked to strengthen connections in the work to come. We also had a good time!
This event was inspired by the 2019 “Let’s Talk” conversations series organized by Reproductive Justice leaders in New Orleans.
For details, please email Darcy Roake at droake@tulane.edu.
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