Virginity revisited :  configurations of the unpossessed body / 
edited by Bonnie MacLachlan and Judith Fletcher. 
 - x, 204 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
 - Phoenix. Supplementary volume. Studies in gender ;  v. 1 .
 - Phoenix.  Supplementary volume.  Studies in gender ;  v. 1. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-196) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0802090133 9780802090133 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007282244 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Virginity--Social aspects<br/>Virginity in literature<br/>Virginity--History<br/>Virginity--Mythology
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL325.V55  / V57 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.732