{"id":176,"date":"2016-09-03T23:29:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T03:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/?page_id=176"},"modified":"2016-09-03T23:32:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T03:32:04","slug":"suzanne-van-geuns","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/suzanne-van-geuns\/","title":{"rendered":"Grieving June Cleaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Whiteness and Fifties Nostalgia in Biblical\u00a0Womanhood Blogging<\/h2>\n<h3>Suzanne van Geuns<\/h3>\n<p>PhD student, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto<\/p>\n<p>Nostalgia, following Stephanie Coontz and Svetlana Boym, is a response to a threat: people remember the past longingly in contrast with a degenerate present. In religious movements, this past acquires the aura of truth. In the online biblical womanhood movement \u2014 consisting of a large network of blogs on authors\u2019 striving towards a \u2018biblical\u2019 femininity \u2014 the fifties, materially represented by June Cleaver, are remembered as a pre-feminist paradise. This paper argues that bloggers\u2019 fifties nostalgia not only supports their overt rejection of feminism, but also presents a means to envision lived-out biblical truth as deeply white and American.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For<em> Sites of Memory<\/em> workshop participants\u00a0\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/suzanne-van-geuns-working-essay\/\">read more<\/a> (password protected)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whiteness and Fifties Nostalgia in Biblical\u00a0Womanhood Blogging Suzanne van Geuns PhD student, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto Nostalgia, following Stephanie Coontz and Svetlana Boym, is a response to a threat: people remember the past longingly in contrast with a degenerate present. In religious movements, this past acquires the aura of truth. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-176","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpm.religion.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}