Virginity Revisited - Configurations of the Unpossessed Body

Informationen zum Autor By Judith Fletcher and Bonnie MacLachlan Klappentext 'This valuable collection examines attitudes toward virginity in Western culture with emphasis on the ancient world and early Christianity. Virginity Revisited makes a unique contribution to the study of women and gender, offering refreshingly diverse disciplinary perspectives and cross-cultural views of the subject.'-Ingrid Holmberg, Department of Classics, University of Victoria Zusammenfassung This is a study of the positive and negative features of sexual renunciation! from ancient Greek divinities and mythical women! in Rome's Vestal Virgins! in the Christian martyrs and Mariology in the Medieval and early Modern period! and in Grace Marks! the heroine of Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Judith Maclachlan Fletcher, Bonnie (EDT)/ Fletcher MacLachlan, Bonnie Fletcher Maclachlan
• Mitarbeit: Judith Fletcher (Herausgeber), Bonnie Maclachlan (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.09.2007
• EAN: 9780802090133
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-9013-3
• Seiten: 220
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Serien: Phoenix Supplementary Volumes; Studies in Gender, Phoenix Sup; Phoenix Supplementary Volumes; Studies in Gender, Phoenix Sup
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft