TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacLachlan,Bonnie
AU  - Fletcher,Judith
TI  - Virginity revisited: configurations of the unpossessed body 
T2  - Phoenix. Supplementary volume. Studies in gender
SN  - 0802090133
AV  - BL325.V55 V57 2007
U1  - 306.732 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - Toronto, Buffalo
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Virginity
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Virginity in literature
KW  - History
KW  - Mythology
N1  - 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
ER  -