Virginity revisited : configurations of the unpossessed body / edited by Bonnie MacLachlan and Judith Fletcher.
Material type: TextSeries: 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
- unmediated
- volume
- 0802090133
- 9780802090133
- 306.732 22
- BL325.V55 V57 2007
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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