Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 809.93353
EAN: 9780874136494
ISBN: 0874136490
Label: University of Delaware Press
Manufacturer: University of Delaware Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 246
Publication Date: 1999-05
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Studio: University of Delaware Press

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The essays in Menacing Virgins delineate the nexus of religious, political, economic, and aesthetic values that produce the Western European myth of virginity and examine how those complex cultural forces animate, empower, discipline, disclose, mystify, and menace the virginal body. The collection includes readings of Icelandic poems, Margaret Cavendish's Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, seventeenth-century dramatic song, and the iconography of Italian wedding chests.

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