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Cover
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: “Our Tantalizing Double”: Envious Virgins, Envying Virgins, Virgin Envy
Part 1: Too Much Pain for Such Little Reward
Chapter 1 “I Will Cut Myself and Smear Blood on the Sheet”: Testing Virginity in Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance
Chapter 2 Between Pleasure and Pain: The Textual Politics of the Hymen
Part 2: Blood, Blood, Blood … and More Blood
Chapter 3 The Politics of Virginity and Abstinence in the Twilight Saga
Chapter 4 Lady of Perpetual Virginity: Jessica’s Presence in True Blood
Part 3: Men be Virgins Too: Queering Virginity
Chapter 5 The Queer Saint: Male Virginity in Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane
Chapter 6 Troping Boyishness, Effeminacy, and Masculine Queer Virginity: Abdellah Taïa and Eyet-Chékib Djaziri
Part 4: F*ck: They Entrapped us in Social Issues and Politics
Chapter 7 Bollywood Virgins: Diachronic Flirtations with Indian Womanhood
Chapter 8 The Policing of Viragos and Other “Fuckable” Bodies: Virginity as Performance in Latin America
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