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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 harnessed by public institutions and redirected for the common good. This was the founding principle of the Vestal Virgins of Rome and later in the monastic orders of the middle ages. Mythical accounts of goddesses and heroines who possessed the ability to recover their virginity after sexual experience demonstrate a belief that virginity is paradoxically connected both with social autonomy and the ability to serve the human community.
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, from 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.
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Judith Fletcher is an associate professor in the Department of Classics at Wilfrid Laurier University.
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Virginity Revisited: Configurations of the Unpossessed Body (Phoenix Supplementary Volumes)
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University of Toronto Press, 2007
ISBN 10 : 0802090133
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Former library copy with stamp on title page and barcode inside back cover; some wear and marking to covers. Contents - 1. The Inventionof Virginity on Olympus / Eleanor Irwin; 2. The Virgin Choruses of Aeschylus / Judith Flecther; 3. The Hipprocratic Parthenos in Sicknes and Health / Ann Ellis Hanson; 4. Why Were the Vestals Virgins? Or the Chastity of Women and the Safety of the Roman State / Holt N. Parker; 5. 'Only Virgins Can Give Birth to Christ': The Virgin Mary and the Problem of Female Authority in Late Antiguity / Kate Cooper; 6. Virgo Fortis: Images of the Crucified Virgin Saint in Medieval Art / Ilse Friesen; 7. Amplification of the Virgin: Play and Empowerment in Wlater of Wimborne's Marie Carmina / Jenifer Sutherland; 8. Christ from the Head of Jupiter: An Epistemological Note on Huet's Treatment of the Virgin Birht; 9. 'Sew and snip, and patch together a genius': Quilting a Virginal Identity in Margaret Atwood's Alis Grace. N° de réf. du vendeur 25191905
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Virginity Revisited: Configurations of the Unpossessed Body (Studies in Gender, Phoenix Supplementary Volumes): 45
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University of Toronto Press, 2007
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Uni. of Toronto hb 2007 with dj - minor wear, otherwise tight binding and clean text. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1692352640293
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