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Virgin Envy

The Cultural (In)Significance of the Hymen

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Pub Date Nov 18 2016 | Archive Date Feb 28 2017

Nonfiction (Adult)

Description

Virgin Envy sets out to re-conceive the ways that we describe and relate to virginity as a cultural construct. Who is a virgin? How do we lose our virginities? What if we regret our "first time"?

Contributors to Virgin Envy everything from medieval romance to Bollywood films to Twilight and True Blood, to destabilize the many assumptions about sexual purity. In particular, the hymen is called into question. How is virginity determined for those without a hymen? How do we account for the ways in which the "geography of the hymen" has changed over the course of history? And what about male and queer virginity? Issues of commodification, postcoloniality, and religious diversity are also addressed.

"An ambitious, wide-ranging, and eclectic collection." Corrinne Harol, Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Virgin Envy sets out to re-conceive the ways that we describe and relate to virginity as a cultural construct. Who is a virgin? How do we lose our virginities? What if we regret our "first time"?

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A Note From the Publisher

Virgin Envy is #2 in the U of R Press's new series "The Exquisite Corpse."

Relevant to anyone teaching YA lit or topics in pop culture, especially with its critiques of vampire lit and Bollywood.

Marketing Contact: Morgan Tunzelmann, morgan.tunzelmann@uregina.ca.

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Virgin Envy is #2 in the U of R Press's new series "The Exquisite Corpse."

Relevant to anyone teaching YA lit or topics in pop culture, especially with its critiques of vampire lit and...

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Advance Praise

"Virgin Envy provides a welcome addition to the new subfield of virginity studies with an intrepid array of old and new, Western and non-Western, virgins and virginities. Any reader not yet convinced of the topic's ongoing and broad-based socio-cultural pertinence has but to open this book." Hanne Blank, author of Virgin: The Untouched History
"Virgin Envy provides a welcome addition to the new subfield of virginity studies with an intrepid array of old and new, Western and non-Western, virgins and virginities. Any reader not yet convinced...
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Marketing Plan

Excerpt in Queer Deer Media, sent to all major gender, sexuality, and queer studies journals in the U.S. and Canada, advertising in the New Republic

Excerpt in Queer Deer Media, sent to all major gender, sexuality, and queer studies journals in the U.S. and Canada, advertising in the New Republic

Available Editions

EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9780889774230
PRICE $24.95 (USD)
PAGES 256

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