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Virgin Territory
Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity
Julia Kelto Lillis
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Virgin Territory
Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity
Julia Kelto Lillis
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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contetns
- Acknowledgments
- Notes to the Reader
- Abbreviations for Series and Reference Works
- Introduction: Ancient and Present-Day Meanings for Virginity
- Part One. Virginity with and without Virginal Anatomy
- Part Two. Christian Conceptualizations of Virginity in the Fourth Century
- Part Three. The Cost of Anatomized Virginity for Late Ancient Christians
- Conclusion: Variety Persists
- Bibliography
- Index