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the cultural (in)significance of the hymen

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"Virgin Envy sets out to reconceive the ways we relate to virginity as a cultural construct. Who is a virgin? How do we lose our virginities? What if we regret our 'first time'? Contributors to Virgin Envy examine everything from the medieval romance to Bollywood films to True Blood and Twilight, to destabilize the many 'certainties' about sexual purity. In particular, the hymen is called into question. How is virginity determined for those without a hymen? How do we account for the ways in which the 'geography of the hymen' has changed over the course of history? And what about male and queer virginity? Issues of commodification, postcoloniality, and religious diversity are also addressed"--

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English
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247

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Subjects
Virginity, Virginity in motion pictures, Virginity in literature, Hymen (Gynecology), Social aspects, Political aspects, History, Feminist literary criticism, Women in literature, Women in motion pictures, Women's studies

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Table of Contents

Introduction : "Our tantalizing double" : envious virgins, envying virgins, virgin envy / Jonathan A. Allan, Cristina Santos, and Adriana Spahr
"I will cut myself and smear blood on the sheet" : testing virginity in medieval and modern Orientalist romance / Amy Burge
Between pleasure and pain : the textual politics of the hymen / Jodi McAlister
The politics of virginity and abstinence in the Twilight saga / Jonathan A. Allan and Cristina Santos
Lady of perpetual virginity : Jessica's presence in True blood / Janice Zehentbauer and Cristina Santos
The queer saint : male virginity in Derek Jarman's Sebastiane / Kevin McGuiness
Troping boyishness, effeminacy, and masculine queer virginity : Abdellah Taïa and Eyet-Chékib Djaziri / Gibson Ncube
Bollywood virgins : diachronic flirtations with Indian womanhood / Asma Sayed
The policing of viragos and other "fuckable" bodies : virginity as performance in Latin America / Tracy Crowe Morey and Adriana Spahr.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
The exquisite corpse book series, Exquisite corpse book series

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Dewey Decimal Class
306.4
Library of Congress
GN484.47 .V57 2016, GN484.47.V57 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 247 pages
Number of pages
247

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27230138M
Internet Archive
virginenvycultur0000unse
ISBN 10
0889774234
ISBN 13
9780889774230
OCLC/WorldCat
953887608

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