Signs Of Virginity

Author : Michael Rosenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190845910
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signs of Virginity written by Michael Rosenberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the theme of bloodied nuptial sheets seems pervasive in western culture, its association with female virginity is uniquely tied to a brief passage in the book of Deuteronomy detailing the procedure for verifying a young woman's purity; it seldom, if ever, appears outside of Abrahamic traditions. In Signs of Virginity, Michael Rosenberg examines the history of virginity testing in Judaism and early Christianity, and the relationship of these tests to a culture that encourages male sexual violence. Deuteronomy's violent vision of virginity has held sway in Jewish and Christian circles more or less ever since. However, Rosenberg points to two authors-the rabbinic collective that produced the Babylonian Talmud and the early Christian thinker Augustine of Hippo-who, even as they perpetuate patriarchal assumptions about female virginity, nonetheless attempt to subvert the emphasis on sexual dominance bequeathed to them by Deuteronomy. Unlike the authors of earlier Rabbinic and Christian texts, who modified but fundamentally maintained and even extended the Deuteronomic ideal, the Babylonian Talmud and Augustine both construct alternative models of female virginity that, if taken seriously, would utterly reverse cultural ideals of masculinity. Indeed this vision of masculinity as fundamentally gentle, rather than characterized by brutal and violent sexual behavior, fits into a broader idealization of masculinity propagated by both authors, who reject what Augustine called a "lust for dominance" as a masculine ideal.

Author : Michael Rosenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190845899
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Signs of Virginity written by Michael Rosenberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signs of Virginity' examines virginity testing in Judaism and early Christianity, and the relationship of these tests to male sexual violence. Rosenberg points to two authors-Augustine of Hippo and the rabbinic collective that produced the Babylonian Talmud-who construct alternative models that, if taken seriously, would utterly reverse cultural ideals of masculinity, encouraging men to be gentle, rather than brutal, in their sexual behavior.

Author : Alice Meyer
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5041215316
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What is virginity and who is a virgin? All about virginity. Why and to whom is it needed? written by Alice Meyer and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-01-29 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From this book you can get information on the topic «What is virginity and who is called a virgin.» Many young ladies (and many guys too), judging by the frequent unclear explanations to this question, do not exactly imagine what virginity is, and when a girl is considered a virgin. Therefore, in order to deal with this once and for all, I suggest that you familiarize yourself with the material of this text. Here there will be answers to most questions concerning this term.

Author : Isidore Bernadotte Lyon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.NP/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Jurisprudence for India written by Isidore Bernadotte Lyon and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen King
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415226627
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Disease of Virgins written by Helen King and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compelling study of the origins and history of the disease. Following the continuity of the disease from its classical roots up, this study questions the nature of the disease and the relationship between illness and body image.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia Medical Semi-monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathleen Coyne Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134737556
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages written by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified. Kelly analyses a variety of medieval Western European texts - including medical treatises and their Classical antecedents - and historical and legal documents. The main focus is the representation of both male and female virgins in saints' legends and romances. The author also makes a comparative study of examples from contemporary fiction, television and film in which testing virginity is a theme. Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages presents a compelling and provocative study of the parodox of bodily and spiritual integrity as both presence and absence.

Author : Hanne Blank
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596910119
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virgin written by Hanne Blank and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative social history examines the history of virginity and of noted virgins in Western culture, describing the unique fascination civilization has had for virginity from a social, political, economic, philosophical, medical, and legal standpoint. Reprint.

Author : Ruth Evans
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802086372
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Virginities written by Ruth Evans and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The variety of subjects and disciplines represented here testify both to the elusiveness of virginity and to its lasting appeal and importance. Medieval Virginities shows how virginity's inherent ambiguity highlights the problems, contradictions and discontinuities lurking within medieval ideologies.

Author : Kathleen Coyne Kelly
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874136494
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Menacing Virgins written by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance examine the nexus of religious, political, economic, and aesthetic values that produce the Western European myth of virginity, and explore how those complex cultural forces animate, empower, discipline, disclose, mystify, and menace the virginal body. As the title suggests, the virgin can be seen alternately or even simultaneously as menaced or menacing. To chart the history of virginity as a steady, evolutionary progression from a religious ideal in the Middle Ages toward a more secularized or sovereign ideal in the Renaissance would obscure how unstable a concept chastity is in both periods. What this collection demonstrates is that medieval and early modern attitudes toward virginity are not general and evolutionary, but specific, changeable, and often conflicted.