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Social Science Gender Studies

Virgin Envy

The Cultural (In)Significance of the Hymen

edited by Jonathan A. Allan, Cristina Santos & Adriana Spahr

Publisher
University of Regina Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2016
Category
Gender Studies, General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780889774247
    Publish Date
    Oct 2016
    List Price
    $17.99

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Description

Contributors to Virgin Envy examine everything from the medieval romance to Bollywood films to True Blood and Twilight, to destabilize the many "certainties" about sexual purity. In particular, the hymen is called into question. How is virginity determined for those without a hymen? How do we account for the way in which the "geography of the hymen" has changed over the course of history? And what about male and queer virginity? Issues of commodification, postcoloniality, and religious diversity are also addressed.

About the authors

Jonathan Allan is Canada Research Chair in Queer Theory and Associate 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, the first book in the Exquisite Corpse series.

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Cristina Santos is Associate Professor at Brock University in St. Catherine's, Ontario.

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Adriana Spahr is Associate Professor of Spanish at MacEwen University in Edmonton, Alberta

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