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Virginity revisited : configurations of the unpossessed body / edited by Bonnie MacLachlan and Judith Fletcher.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Phoenix. Supplementary volume. Studies in gender ; ; v. 1.Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: x, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0802090133
  • 9780802090133
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.732 22
LOC classification:
  • BL325.V55 V57 2007
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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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 306.732 VIR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A451951B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-196) and index.

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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