Virgin Territory : Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Christianity in Late Antiquity
ISBN-10
0520389018
ISBN-13
9780520389014
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 13th, 2022
Print length
290 Pages
Weight
500 grams
Dimensions
16.10 x 23.70 x 2.60 cms
Ksh 14,400.00
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Women's virginity held tremendous significance in early Christianity and the Mediterranean world. Early Christian thinkers developed diverse definitions of virginity and understood its bodily aspects in surprising, often nonanatomical ways. Eventually Christians took part in a cross-cultural shift toward viewing virginity as something that could be perceived in women's sex organs. Treating virginity as anatomical brought both benefits and costs. By charting this change and situating it in the larger landscape of ancient thought, Virgin Territory illuminates unrecognized differences among early Christian sources and historicizes problematic ideas about women's bodies that still persist today.
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