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"Virgin Envy sets out to reconceive the ways we 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 examine everything from the medieval romance to Bollywood films to True Blood and Twilight, to destabilize the many "certainties" 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."--

Virginity --- Virginity in literature. --- Virginity in motion pictures. --- Hymen (Gynecology) --- Motion pictures --- Sexual abstinence --- Defloration --- First sexual experiences --- Vagina --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- History. --- first time. --- sexuality. --- virgin.

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From the perspective of cultural conservatives, Hollywood movies are cesspools of vice, exposing impressionable viewers to pernicious sexually-permissive messages. Offering a groundbreaking study of Hollywood films produced since 2000, Abstinence Cinema comes to a very different conclusion, finding echoes of the evangelical movement's abstinence-only rhetoric in everything from Easy A to Taken. Casey Ryan Kelly tracks the surprising sex-negative turn that Hollywood films have taken, associating premarital sex with shame and degradation, while romanticizing traditional nuclear families, courtship rituals, and gender roles. As he demonstrates, these movies are particularly disempowering for young women, concocting plots in which the decision to refrain from sex until marriage is the young woman's primary source of agency and arbiter of moral worth. Locating these regressive sexual politics not only in expected sites, like the Twilight films, but surprising ones, like the raunchy comedies of Judd Apatow, Kelly makes a compelling case that Hollywood films have taken a significant step backward in recent years. Abstinence Cinema offers close readings of movies from a wide spectrum of genres, and it puts these films into conversation with rhetoric that has emerged in other arenas of American culture. Challenging assumptions that we are living in a more liberated era, the book sounds a warning bell about the powerful cultural forces that seek to demonize sexuality and curtail female sexual agency.

Sex in motion pictures. --- Virginity in motion pictures. --- Sex in moving-pictures --- Motion pictures --- Erotic films --- Pornographic films

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Virginity --- Women --- Virginité --- Femmes --- Early works to 1800 --- Education --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- -Christian women --- -Academic collection --- Women, Christian --- Sexual abstinence --- Defloration --- First sexual experiences --- Conduct of life --- Virginité --- Neo-Latin literature --- Christian women --- Christian women - Education - Early works to 1800. --- Virginity - Early works to 1800. --- -Early works to 1800 --- FEMMES --- VIE RELIGIEUSE --- HISTOIRE --- 16E SIECLE --- EDUCATION --- 16e SIECLE

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This study presents a compelling and provocative study of virginity, which challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified.

Literature, Medieval --- Virginity --- Christianity and literature --- Romances --- Virginity in literature. --- Christian hagiography. --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- Chivalric romances --- Chivalry --- Courtly romances --- French romances --- Medieval romances --- Romances, French --- Romans courtois --- French literature --- Literature and Christianity --- Literature --- Christian literature --- Sexual abstinence --- Defloration --- First sexual experiences --- History and criticism. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- History

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Stories of the torture and execution of beautiful Christian women first appeared in late antiquity and proliferated during the early Middle Ages. A thousand years later, virgin martyrs were still the most popular female saints. Their legends, in countless retellings through the centuries, preserved a standard plot-the heroine resists a pagan suitor, endures cruelties inflicted by her rejected lover or outraged family, works miracles, and dies for Christ. That sequence was embellished by incidents emblematic of the specific saint: Juliana's battle with the devil, Barbara's immurement in the tower, Katherine's encounter with spiked wheels. Karen A. Winstead examines this seemingly static story form and discovers subtle shifts in the representation of the virgin martyrs, as their legends were adapted for changing audiences in late medieval England.

Christian legends --- Christian hagiography --- Virginity --- Christian women martyrs --- Christian women saints --- Legends, Christian --- Legends --- Sexual abstinence --- Defloration --- First sexual experiences --- Women Christian martyrs --- Christian martyrs --- Women martyrs --- Christian saints, Women --- Women Christian saints --- Christian saints --- Women saints --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Biography --- History and criticism. --- England --- Religious life and customs. --- Church history --- History and criticism --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Legends [Christian ] --- 1066-1485 --- Religious life and customs --- Christian women saints - Biography - History and criticism. --- Christian women martyrs - Biography - History and criticism. --- Virginity - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500. --- Legends, Christian - England.