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Virgin envy : the cultural (in)significance of the hymen /
"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 a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Regina, Saskatchewan :
University of Regina Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Exquisite corpse (University of Regina Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.