Virgin territory : configuring female virginity in early Christianity

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Title
"Virgin territory : configuring female virginity in early Christianity"
Statement of Responsibility
Julia Kelto Lillis
Publisher
  • University of California Press
Publication Year
  • c2023
Book size
24 cm
Series Name / No
  • : cloth

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Notes

Summary: "Women's virginity held tremendous significance in early Christianity and the Mediterranean world. Julia Kelto Lillis demonstrates that 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 shift 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"--Provided by publisher

Bibliography: p. 223-264

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