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1 online resource (x, 204 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Phoenix. Supplementary volumes. Studies in gender
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Phoenix. Supplementary volume.
Studies in Gender.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-196) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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| Summary |
"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 provided a certain agency, autonomy, and power to women. This is a study of the positive and negative features of sexual renunciation, in ancient Greek divinities and mythical women, in Rome's Vestal Virgins, in the Christian martyrs and Mariology in the medieval and early modern period, and in Grace Marks, the heroine of Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace."--Jacket. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Virginity -- Social aspects.
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Virginity. |
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Social aspects. |
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Virginity in literature.
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Virginity in literature. |
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Virginity -- History.
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History. |
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Virginity -- Mythology.
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Virginity -- Mythology. |
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Virginity. |
| Added Author |
MacLachlan, Bonnie.
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Fletcher, Judith.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Virginity revisited. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2007282244 |
| ISBN |
9781442685109 (electronic book) |
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1442685107 (electronic book) |
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0802084249 (print) |
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9780802090133 (print) |
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0802090133 |
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