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State of Virginity

Ulrike Strasser
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Author : Ulrike Strasser
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0472113518

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In premodern Germany, both the emerging centralized government and the powerful Catholic Church redefined gender roles for their own ends. Ulrike Strasser's interdisciplinary study of Catholic state-building examines this history from the vantage point of the virginal female body. Focusing on Bavaria, Germany's first absolutist state, Strasser recounts how state authorities forced chastity upon lower-class women to demarcate legitimate forms of sexuality and maintain class hierarchies. At the same time, they cloistered groups of upper-class women to harness the spiritual authority associated with holy virgins to the political authority of the state. The state finally recruited upper-class virgins as teachers who could school girls in the gender-specific morals and type of citizenship favored by authorities. Challenging Weberian concepts that link modernization to Protestantism, Strasser's study illustrates the modernizing power of Catholicism through an examination of virginity's central role in politics, culture, and society. Weaving together the stories of marriage and convent, of lay as well as religious women, State of Virginity makes important contributions to the historical study of sexuality and the growing feminist literature on the state. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of political and religious history, women's studies, and social history.

On Virginity

St. Gregory of Nyssa
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Author : St. Gregory of Nyssa
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Signs of Virginity

Michael Rosenberg
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Author : Michael Rosenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190845919

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Although the theme of bloodied nuptial sheets seems pervasive in western culture, its association with female virginity is uniquely tied to a brief passage in the book of Deuteronomy detailing the procedure for verifying a young woman's purity; it seldom, if ever, appears outside of Abrahamic traditions. In Signs of Virginity, Michael Rosenberg examines the history of virginity testing in Judaism and early Christianity, and the relationship of these tests to a culture that encourages male sexual violence. Deuteronomy's violent vision of virginity has held sway in Jewish and Christian circles more or less ever since. However, Rosenberg points to two authors-the rabbinic collective that produced the Babylonian Talmud and the early Christian thinker Augustine of Hippo-who, even as they perpetuate patriarchal assumptions about female virginity, nonetheless attempt to subvert the emphasis on sexual dominance bequeathed to them by Deuteronomy. Unlike the authors of earlier Rabbinic and Christian texts, who modified but fundamentally maintained and even extended the Deuteronomic ideal, the Babylonian Talmud and Augustine both construct alternative models of female virginity that, if taken seriously, would utterly reverse cultural ideals of masculinity. Indeed this vision of masculinity as fundamentally gentle, rather than characterized by brutal and violent sexual behavior, fits into a broader idealization of masculinity propagated by both authors, who reject what Augustine called a "lust for dominance" as a masculine ideal.

On Virginity

St Ambrose
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Author : St Ambrose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1643730150

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THE state of Virginity is undoubtedly commended in Holy Scripture; both by our Lord and St. Paul, but learned men have differed in their opinions as to the original customs and rules observed by virgins in the earliest ages. Some suppose that from the very beginning it was the custom for them to make a solemn profession of the virgin life, and to live together in common. Others consider that their vows were private, and they lived sometimes together, sometimes in the homes of their parents. Others, again, believing that there was no more than a simple purpose on the part of the virgins signified by the veil, and the simplicity of their dress, attribute the first commencements of community life to St. Ambrose himself. From the days of the apostles there were some who devoted themselves to God in a life of chastity, and that later on the promise or vow was made in the presence of others--the bishop, clergy, and friends. These virgins lived at home with their parents, whilst the times of persecution endured, making it practically impossible for them to live elsewhere. Common life amongst them would seem to have commenced in the East, and St. Athanasius, when, seeking refuge from the Arians, he came to Rome, introduced the custom to the Western Church.

Into the Deep

Abigail Rine Favale
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Author : Abigail Rine Favale
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781532605024

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Into the Deep traces one woman's spiritual odyssey from birthright evangelicalism through postmodern feminism and, ultimately, into the Roman Catholic Church. As a college student, Abigail Favale experienced a feminist awakening that reshaped her life and faith. A decade later, on the verge of atheism, she found herself entering the oldest male-helmed institution on the planet--the last place she expected to be. With humor and insight, the author describes her gradual exodus from Christian orthodoxy and surprising swerve into Catholicism. She writes candidly about grappling with wounds from her past, Catholic sexual morality, the male priesthood, and an interfaith marriage. Her vivid prose brings to life the wrenching tumult of conversion--a conversion that began after she entered the Church and began to pry open its mysteries. There, she discovered the startling beauty of a sacramental cosmos, a vision of reality that upended her notions of gender, sexuality, identity, and authority. Into the Deep is a thoroughly twenty-first-century conversion, a compelling account of recovering an ancient faith after a decade of doubt.

The Purity Myth

Jessica Valenti
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Author : Jessica Valenti
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781458766755

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The United States is obsessed with virginity - from the media to schools to government agencies. This panic is ensuring that young women's ability to be moral agents is absolutely dependent on their sexuality. Jessica Valenti, executive editor of Feministing.com and author of Full Frontal Feminism and Yes Means Yes, addresses this poignant issue in her latest book, The Purity Myth. Valenti argues that the country's intense focus on chastity is extremely damaging to young women. Through in depth analysis of cultural stereotypes and media messages, Valenti reveals that powerful messages - ranging from abstinence curriculum to ''Girls Gone Wild'' commercials - place a young woman's worth entirely on her sexuality. Morals are therefore linked purely to sexual behavior, as opposed to values like honesty, kindness, and altruism. Valenti approaches the topic head-on, shedding light on chastity in a historical context, abstinence-only education, pornography, and public punishments for those who dare to have sex, among other critical issues. She also offers solutions that pave the way for a future without a damaging emphasis on virginity, including a call to rethink male sexuality and reframing the idea of ''losing it.'' With Valenti's usual balance of intelligence and wit, The Purity Myth presents a powerful and revolutionary argument that girls and women, even in this day and age, are overly valued for their sexuality, and that this needs to stop.

Pure Resistance

Theodora A. Jankowski
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Author : Theodora A. Jankowski
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0812235525

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Noting that though Christian thought has consistently held virginity to be purer than married life, a virgin woman has always queer been in social terms, Jankowsky (English, Washington State U.) explores the tensions behind the many representations of virgin women in English stage plays from 1590 to about 1670 and how those representations can be considered queer. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Virgin

Hanne Blank
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Author : Hanne Blank
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596910119

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A provocative social history examines the history of virginity and of noted virgins in Western culture, describing the unique fascination civilization has had for virginity from a social, political, economic, philosophical, medical, and legal standpoint. Reprint.

You Can Be a Virgin Again

J. P. Sloane,Shannon Sloane
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Author : J. P. Sloane,Shannon Sloane
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781600342479

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As a labor of love to fight the lies of Satan and the world, a father and daughter teamed up to write this unique and encouraging book to prove that a person can recapture their innocence and virginity through God if they truly have a desire to. (Practical Life)

Virgin Territory

Tamar Jeffers McDonald
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Author : Tamar Jeffers McDonald
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0814333184

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A critical investigation of how virginity is represented in film. It considers virginity as it is produced and marketed in film. With chapters that span a range of periods, genres, and performances, it intends to prove that although it seems like an obvious quality at first glance, virginity in film is anything but simple.

Against Jovinianus

St. Jerome
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Author : St. Jerome
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781987022889

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Jovinianus, about whom little more is known than what is to be found in Jerome's treatise, published a Latin treatise outlining several opinions: That a virgin is no better, as such, than a wife in the sight of God. Abstinence from food is no better than a thankful partaking of food. A person baptized with the Spirit as well as with water cannot sin. All sins are equal. There is but one grade of punishment and one of reward in the future state. In addition to this, he held the birth of Jesus Christ to have been by a "true parturition," and was thus refuting the orthodoxy of the time, according to which, the infant Jesus passed through the walls of the womb as his Resurrection body afterwards did, out of the tomb or through closed doors.