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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77797453 Title: Virgins : a cultural history Author: Anke Bernau Publisher: London : Granta, 2007. ISBN/ISSN: 9781862078109 1862078106 OCLC:77797453

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Virgins : a cultural history

Author:	Anke Bernau
Publisher:	London : Granta, 2007.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Asks why virginity has remained so important in western civilization, and looks at the changing roles of virginity over the last 800 years, drawing on a wide range of examples from medieval saints to Read more...
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Bernau, Anke. Virgins. London : Granta, 2007 (OCoLC)655243354
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Anke Bernau Find more information about:
ISBN:	9781862078109 1862078106
OCLC Number:	77797453
Description:	xv, 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	1. 'I don't know virgin' -- The elusive hymen -- The signs of virginity -- Is virginity bad for you? -- Restoring virginity and the chastity business -- Virgin mummies -- 2. 'The world's redemption' -- Body and soul -- Virgins and wives -- Reformed virginity -- Passionate purity -- 3. 'An unknown alphabet' -- Beginnings -- The pen and the page -- How to read virginity -- Defloration -- Independent virgins -- Unnatural, unfashionable, uncanny -- Endings -- 4. 'Repugnant to the common good' -- The body politic -- Virgin territories -- Virginity in the marketplace -- The public woman -- The virgin and the law : rape -- 5. The future of virginity -- Sexual politics -- Teaching innocence -- Birth of a movement -- Abstinence tomorrow?
Responsibility:	Anke Bernau.
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