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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Virgin envy. London : Zed Books Ltd, 2016 (OCoLC)951835566 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jonathan A Allan; Cristina Santos; Adriana Spahr |
ISBN: | 9781786990372 1786990377 9781786990389 1786990385 9781786990396 1786990393 |
OCLC Number: | 964650622 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: "Our Tantalizing Double": Envious Virgins, Envying Virgins, Virgin Envy; Part 1: Too Much Pain for Such Little Reward; Chapter 1 "I Will Cut Myself and Smear Blood on the Sheet": Testing Virginity in Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance; Chapter 2 Between Pleasure and Pain: The Textual Politics of the Hymen; Part 2: Blood, Blood, Blood & and More Blood; Chapter 3 The Politics of Virginity and Abstinence in the Twilight Saga; Chapter 4 Lady of Perpetual Virginity: Jessica's Presence in True Blood. Part 3: Men be Virgins Too: Queering VirginityChapter 5 The Queer Saint: Male Virginity in Derek Jarman's Sebastiane; Chapter 6 Troping Boyishness, Effeminacy, and Masculine Queer Virginity: Abdellah Taïa and Eyet-Chékib Djaziri; Part 4: F*ck: They Entrapped us in Social Issues and Politics; Chapter 7 Bollywood Virgins: Diachronic Flirtations with Indian Womanhood; Chapter 8 The Policing of Viragos and Other "Fuckable" Bodies: Virginity as Performance in Latin America; Contributors; Index. |
Responsibility: | edited by Jonathan A. Allan, Cristina Santos and Adriana Spahr. |
Abstract:
A queer exploration of our attitudes to virginity.
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'Ambitious, wide-ranging, and eclectic.'Corrinne Harol, author of Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature'Smart and au courant ... Virgin Envy provides a welcome addition to the new subfield of virginity studies with an intrepid array of old and new, Western and non-Western, virgins and virginities.'Hanne Blank, author of Virgin: The Untouched History'Peers into the messy, tangled world of virginity via examinations of Twilight, True Blood, Tahrir Square activism, and Bollywood.' Broadly Read more...

