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Virginity revisited : configurations of the unpossessed body /
"Virginity Revisited is a collection of essays that examines virginity not as a physical reality but as a cultural artefact. By situating the topic of virginity within a range of historical 'moments' and using a variety of methodologies, Virginity Revisited illuminates how chastity pr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Phoenix. Supplementary volume (Toronto, Ont.). Studies in Gender.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Bonnie MacLachlan
- The invention of virginity on Olympus / Eleanor Irwin
- The virgin choruses of Aeschylus / Judith Fletcher
- The Hippocratic Parthenos in sickness and health / Ann Ellis Hanson
- Why were the vestals virgins? Or the chastity of women and the safety of the Roman state / Holt N. Parker
- 'Only virgins can give birth to Christ': the Virgin Mary and the problem of female authority in late antiquity / Kate Cooper
- Virgo fortis: images of the crucified virgin saint in medieval art / Ilse Friesen
- Amplification of the virgin: play and empowerment in Walter of Wimborne's Marie Carmina / Jenifer Sutherland
- Christ from the head of Jupiter: an epistemological note on Huet's treatment of the Virgin Birth / Thomas Lennon
- 'Sew and snip, and patch together a genius': quilting a virginal identity in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace / Anne Geddes Bailey.