Virginity Revisited : : Configurations of the Unpossessed Body / / Judith Fletcher, Bonnie MacLachlan.
From Classical Antiquity to the present, virginity has been closely allied with power: as someone who chooses a life of celibacy retains mastery over his or her body. Sexual potency withheld becomes an energy-reservoir that can ensure independence and enhance self-esteem, but it can also be harnesse...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction / Maclachlan, Bonnie
- 1. The Invention of Virginity on Olympus / Irwin, Eleanor
- 2. The Virgin Choruses of Aeschylus / Fletcher, Judith
- 3. The Hippocratic Parthenos in Sickness and Health / Hanson, Ann Ellis
- 4. Why Were the Vestals Virgins? Or the Chastity of Women and the Safety of the Roman State / Parker, Holt N.
- 5. 'Only Virgins Can Give Birth to Christ': The Virgin Mary and the Problem of Female Authority in Late Antiquity / Cooper, Kate
- 6. Virgo Fortis: Images of the Crucified Virgin Saint in Medieval Art / Friesen, Ilse
- 7. Amplification of the Virgin: Play and Empowerment in Walter of Wimborne's Marie Carmina / Sutherland, Jenifer
- 8. Christ from the Head of Jupiter: An Epistemological Note on Huet's Treatment of the Virgin Birth / Lennon, Thomas
- 9. 'Sew and snip, and patch together a genius': Quilting a Virginal Identity in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace / Bailey, Anne Geddes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Backmatter