ISBN: 9780802090133 - virginity revisited: configurations of the unpossessed body (phoenix supplementary volumes/studies in gender, 44-1, band 45) (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Former library copy with stamp on title page and barcode inside back cover; some wear and marking to covers. Contents - 1. The Inventionof Virginity on Olympus / Eleanor Irwin; 2. The Virgin Choruses of Aeschylus / Judith Flecther; 3. The Hipprocratic Parthenos in Sicknes and Health / Ann Ellis Hanson; 4. Why Were the Vestals Virgins? Or the Chastity of Women and the Safety of the Roman State / Holt N. Parker; 5. 'Only Virgins Can Give Birth to Christ': The Virgin Mary and the Problem of Female Authority in Late Antiguity / Kate Cooper; 6. Virgo Fortis: Images of the Crucified Virgin Saint in Medieval Art / Ilse Friesen; 7. Amplification of the Virgin: Play and Empowerment in Wlater of Wimborne's Marie Carmina / Jenifer Sutherland; 8. Christ from the Head of Jupiter: An Epistemological Note on Huet's Treatment of the Virgin Birht; 9. 'Sew and snip, and patch together a genius': Quilting a Virginal Identity in Margaret Atwood's Alis Grace.…