Conservative evangelicals embraced militant masculinity to restore white patriarchal authority

Evidence

In various ways, each of these disruptions challenged the authority of white men. In the 1960s and 1970s, then, conservative evangelicals would be drawn to a nostalgic, rugged masculinity as they looked to reestablish white patriarchal authority in its many guises. Over time, the defense of patriarchy and a growing embrace of militant masculinity would come to define both substance and symbol of evangelical cultural and political values. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 87

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Connects to ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ — both trace how moral-panic rhetoric about gender and decorum functions as class/identity signaling when authority is challenged.