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Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen
Jonathan A. Allan (Ed.)
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Virginity is of concern here, that is its utter messiness. At once valuable and detrimental, normative and deviant, undesirable and enviable. Virginity and its loss hold tremendous cultural significance. For many, female virginity is still a universally accepted condition, something that is somehow bound to the hymen, whereas male virginity is almost as elusive as the G-spot: we know it's there, it’s just we have a harder time finding it. Of course boys are virgins, queers are virgins, some people reclaim their virginities, and others reject virginity from the get go. So what if we agree to forget the ... Read more
Virginity is of concern here, that is its utter messiness. At once valuable and detrimental, normative and deviant, undesirable and enviable. Virginity and its loss hold tremendous cultural significance. For many, female virginity is still a universally accepted condition, something that is somehow bound to the hymen, whereas male virginity is almost as elusive as the G-spot: we know it's there, it’s just we have a harder time finding it. Of course boys are virgins, queers are virgins, some people reclaim their virginities, and others reject virginity from the get go. So what if we agree to forget the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786990365
SKU
V9781786990365
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About Jonathan A. Allan (Ed.)
Jonathan A. Allan is Canada research chair in queer theory and assistant 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. Cristina Santos is an associate professor at Brock University. Her previous publications include Defiant Deviance: The Irreality of Reality ... Read more
Reviews for Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen
Peers into the messy, tangled world of virginity via examinations of Twilight, True Blood, Tahrir Square activism, and Bollywood.
Broadly
Ambitious, wide-ranging, and eclectic.
Corrinne Harol, author of Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Smart and au courant … Virgin Envy provides a welcome addition to the new subfield of virginity studies with an intrepid array of ... Read more
Broadly
Ambitious, wide-ranging, and eclectic.
Corrinne Harol, author of Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Smart and au courant … Virgin Envy provides a welcome addition to the new subfield of virginity studies with an intrepid array of ... Read more