Virginity Revisited
ISBN: 9781442685109
Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / University of Toronto Press
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This is a study of the positive and negative features of sexual renunciation, from ancient Greek divinities and mythical women, in Rome's Vestal Virgins, in the Christian martyrs and Mariology in the Medieval and early Modern period, and in Grace Marks, the heroine of Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace.


Fletcher Judith :

Judith Fletcher is an associate professor in the Department of Classics at Wilfrid Laurier University.MacLachlan Bonnie :

Bonnie MacLachlan is an associate professor emerita in the Department of Classical Studies at Western University.

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