Virgin Envy
Editat de Jonathan A Allan, Cristina Santos, Adriana Spahren Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 noi 2016
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780889774230
ISBN-10: 0889774234
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: University of Regina Press
ISBN-10: 0889774234
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: University of Regina Press
Recenzii
"An ambitious, wide-ranging, and eclectic collection." -- Corrinne Harol, Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature
"Boldly and unapologetically reclaims the meaning of the term 'virgin.' Without giving too much away, spaces to talk about the tensions of 'normal' and 'deviant' sexual desires are opened. And, determining who is and who isn't a virgin is fascinatingly at the forefront of this text." - This Magazine
"Explores in depth... what virginity is like-- what it stands in for, what it is groomed and manipulated and fetishized to represent--as much as what it is." - LRC
"Unreservedly recommended for community, university, and college Gender Studies collections." - Midwest Book Review
"Boldly and unapologetically reclaims the meaning of the term 'virgin.' Without giving too much away, spaces to talk about the tensions of 'normal' and 'deviant' sexual desires are opened. And, determining who is and who isn't a virgin is fascinatingly at the forefront of this text." - This Magazine
"Explores in depth... what virginity is like-- what it stands in for, what it is groomed and manipulated and fetishized to represent--as much as what it is." - LRC
"Unreservedly recommended for community, university, and college Gender Studies collections." - Midwest Book Review
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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 hymen all together? Might we start to see the instability of terms like untouched, pure, or innocent? Might we question the act of sex, the very notion of relational sexuality? After all, for many people it is the sexual acts they don't do, or don't want to do, that carry the most abundant emotional clout.
Virgin Envy is a collection of essays that look past the vestal virgins and beyond Joan of Arc. From medieval to present-day literature, the output of HBO, Bollywood, and the films of Abdellah Taïa or Derek Jarman to the virginity testing of politically active women in Tahrir Square, the writers here explore the concept of virginity in today's world to show that ultimately virginity is a site around which our most basic beliefs about sexuality are confronted, and from which we can come to understand some of our most basic anxieties, paranoias, fears, and desires.
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 hymen all together? Might we start to see the instability of terms like untouched, pure, or innocent? Might we question the act of sex, the very notion of relational sexuality? After all, for many people it is the sexual acts they don't do, or don't want to do, that carry the most abundant emotional clout.
Virgin Envy is a collection of essays that look past the vestal virgins and beyond Joan of Arc. From medieval to present-day literature, the output of HBO, Bollywood, and the films of Abdellah Taïa or Derek Jarman to the virginity testing of politically active women in Tahrir Square, the writers here explore the concept of virginity in today's world to show that ultimately virginity is a site around which our most basic beliefs about sexuality are confronted, and from which we can come to understand some of our most basic anxieties, paranoias, fears, and desires.
Cuprins
Introduction: "Our Tantalizing Double": Envious Virgins, Envying Virgins, Virgin Envy - Jonathan A. Allan, Cristina Santos, and Adriana Spahr
Part I: Too Much Pain for Such Little Reward
1. "I Will Cut Myself and Smear Blood on the Sheet": Testing Virginity in Medieval and Modern Romance - Amy Burge
2. Between Pleasure and Pain: The Textual Politics of the Hymen - Jodi McAlister
Part II: Blood, Blood, Blood . and More Blood
3. The Politics of Virginity and Abstinence in the Twilight Saga - Jonathan A. Allan and Cristina Santos
4. Lady of Perpetual Virginity: Jessica's Presence in True Blood - Janice Zehentbauer and Cristina Santos
Part III: Men Be Virgins Too: Queering Virginity
5. The Queer Saint: Male Virginity in Derek Jarman's Sebastiane - Kevin McGuiness
6. Troping Boyishness, Effeminacy, and Masculine Queer Virginity: Abdellah Taïa and Eyet-Chékib Djaziri - Gibson Ncube
Part IV: F*ck: They Entrapped Us in Social Issues and Politics
7. Bollywood Virgins: Diachronic Flirtations With Indian Womanhood - Asma Sayed
8. The Policing of Viragos and Other "Fuckable"' Bodies: Virginity as Performance in Latin America - Tracy Crowe Morey and Adriana Spahr
Part I: Too Much Pain for Such Little Reward
1. "I Will Cut Myself and Smear Blood on the Sheet": Testing Virginity in Medieval and Modern Romance - Amy Burge
2. Between Pleasure and Pain: The Textual Politics of the Hymen - Jodi McAlister
Part II: Blood, Blood, Blood . and More Blood
3. The Politics of Virginity and Abstinence in the Twilight Saga - Jonathan A. Allan and Cristina Santos
4. Lady of Perpetual Virginity: Jessica's Presence in True Blood - Janice Zehentbauer and Cristina Santos
Part III: Men Be Virgins Too: Queering Virginity
5. The Queer Saint: Male Virginity in Derek Jarman's Sebastiane - Kevin McGuiness
6. Troping Boyishness, Effeminacy, and Masculine Queer Virginity: Abdellah Taïa and Eyet-Chékib Djaziri - Gibson Ncube
Part IV: F*ck: They Entrapped Us in Social Issues and Politics
7. Bollywood Virgins: Diachronic Flirtations With Indian Womanhood - Asma Sayed
8. The Policing of Viragos and Other "Fuckable"' Bodies: Virginity as Performance in Latin America - Tracy Crowe Morey and Adriana Spahr