Virginity Revisited: Configurations of the Unpossessed Body

Published by University of Toronto Press 2007

Virginity Revisited

Configurations of the Unpossessed Body

Edited by: Judith Fletcher and Bonnie MacLachlan

Volume 45 in the series Phoenix Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442685109

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Fletcher Judith :

Judith Fletcher is an associate professor in the Department of Classics at Wilfrid Laurier University.MacLachlan Bonnie :

Bonnie MacLachlan is an associate professor emerita in the Department of Classical Studies at Western University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Bonnie Maclachlan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Invention of Virginity on Olympus Eleanor Irwin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. The Virgin Choruses of Aeschylus Judith Fletcher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3. The Hippocratic Parthenos in Sickness and Health Ann Ellis Hanson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
4. Why Were the Vestals Virgins? Or the Chastity of Women and the Safety of the Roman State Holt N. Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
5. ‘Only Virgins Can Give Birth to Christ’: The Virgin Mary and the Problem of Female Authority in Late Antiquity Kate Cooper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
6. Virgo Fortis: Images of the Crucified Virgin Saint in Medieval Art Ilse Friesen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
7. Amplification of the Virgin: Play and Empowerment in Walter of Wimborne’s Marie Carmina Jenifer Sutherland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
8. Christ from the Head of Jupiter: An Epistemological Note on Huet’s Treatment of the Virgin Birth Thomas Lennon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
9. ‘Sew and snip, and patch together a genius’: Quilting a Virginal Identity in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace Anne Geddes Bailey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 220

eBook

Published: December 31, 2007
ISBN: 9781442685109