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Signs of Virginity

Testing Virgins and Making Men in Late Antiquity

  • Hardback
  • 336 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 16.6 x 23.9 x 3.1 cm

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For scholars interested in gender and sexuality studies

Sheds light on virginity tests and male violence

You will gain insights into cultural masculinity shifts

"Signs of Virginity" explores virginity testing in late antiquity.

Signs of Virginity examines virginity testing in Judaism and early Christianity, and the relationship of these tests to male sexual violence. Rosenberg points to two authors-Augustine of Hippo and the rabbinic collective that produced the Babylonian Talmud-who construct alternative models that, if taken seriously, would utterly reverse cultural ideals of masculinity, encouraging men to be gentle, rather than brutal, in their sexual behavior.
Signs of Virginity and The Essential History of Christianity
The Essential History of ChristianitySigns of Virginity

  • Title

    Signs of Virginity

  • Author

    Michael Rosenberg

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    March 2018

  • Weight

    617g

  • Page Count

    336

  • Dimensions

    16.6 x 23.9 x 3.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780190845896

  • ISBN-10

    0190845899

  • Eden Code

    4535407

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