Virgin Envy

The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen
Herausgeber: Allan, Jonathan A; Spahr, Adriana; Santos, Cristina

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Produktbeschreibung

A queer exploration of our attitudes to virginity.

Produktdetails

• Exquisite Corpse
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 25mm x 25mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781786990365
• ISBN-10: 1786990369
• Artikelnr.: 56919006

Autorenporträt

Jonathan A. Allan is Canada research chair in queer theory and assistant professor of gender and women's studies and English and creative writing at Brandon University. He is the author of Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus. Cristina Santos is an associate professor at Brock University. Her previous publications include Defiant Deviance: The Irreality of Reality in the Cultural Imaginary (2006), The Monster Imagined: Humanity's Re-Creation of Monsters and Monstrosity (2010) and Monstrous Deviations in Literature and the Arts (2011), to name a few. Adriana Spahr is an associate professor at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta. Her last co-authored book Madre de Mendoza/Mother of Mendoza (Corregidor, 2013) reflects her current research interest in testimonial literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "Our Tantalizing Double": Envious Virgins, Envying Virgins,
Virgin Envy - Jonathan A. Allan, Cristina Santos, and Adriana Spahr Part I:
Too Much Pain for Such Little Reward 1. "I Will Cut Myself and Smear Blood
on the Sheet": Testing Virginity in Medieval and Modern Romance - Amy Burge
2. Between Pleasure and Pain: The Textual Politics of the Hymen - Jodi
McAlister Part II: Blood, Blood, Blood . and More Blood 3. The Politics of
Virginity and Abstinence in the Twilight Saga - Jonathan A. Allan and
Cristina Santos 4. Lady of Perpetual Virginity: Jessica's Presence in True
Blood - Janice Zehentbauer and Cristina Santos Part III: Men Be Virgins
Too: Queering Virginity 5. The Queer Saint: Male Virginity in Derek
Jarman's Sebastiane - Kevin McGuiness 6. Troping Boyishness, Effeminacy,
and Masculine Queer Virginity: Abdellah Taïa and Eyet-Chékib Djaziri -
Gibson Ncube Part IV: F*ck: They Entrapped Us in Social Issues and Politics
7. Bollywood Virgins: Diachronic Flirtations With Indian Womanhood - Asma
Sayed 8. The Policing of Viragos and Other "Fuckable"' Bodies: Virginity as
Performance in Latin America - Tracy Crowe Morey and Adriana Spahr