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Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity Volume 13

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Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity Volume 13 - Lillis, Julia Kelto
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"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 ...

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Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity Volume 13 2022, University of California Press

ISBN-13: 9780520389014

Hardcover