Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen

Author:   Jonathan A. Allan ,  Cristina Santos ,  Adriana Spahr
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pages:   256
Publication Date:   15 November 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Jonathan A. Allan ,  Cristina Santos ,  Adriana Spahr
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Zed Books Ltd
ISBN:  

9781786990365


ISBN 10:   1786990369
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   15 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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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


'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


'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


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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.

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