Virgin envy : 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 witho...

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Explore Topics & Themes:

Hymen (Gynecology)

Virginity History

Virginity Political aspects

Virginity Social aspects

Virginity in literature

Virginity in motion pictures

Part of a Series:

Exquisite corpse

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ISBN:

9780889774230
0889774234

Description:

viii, 247 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index
Issued also in electronic format

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 / my 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 McGuinness
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

Control Number:

1871017

Other Authors:

Allan, Jonathan A., 1983- author, editor
Santos, Cristina, 1972- author, editor
Spahr, Adriana, 1957- author, editor

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