Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

by Linda Kay Klein

second stumbling block is its strict gender role expectations. At a time when many in our society are rejecting the importance of gender distinctions altogether, the religious purity movement is doubling down on them, teaching what is called complementarianism—the idea that there are two distinct genders that have equal worth in God’s eyes, but very different roles, responsibilities, and expectations here on earth: