Virgin Envy: The (In)Significance of the Hymen [SUNSET]

A striking collection of essays upending our understanding of sexual purity by confronting our beliefs about virginity, highlighting its intersections with colonialism, commodification, race, and religion. By examining our relationship with virginity through the mediums of literature and film, the reader is instantly more invested in the topic because we're already invested in those stories. From medieval romance to Bollywood films, the role of abstinence in the Twilight Saga, the boyish and effeminate tropes surrounding queer masculine identities, these essays will quickly absorb you into the politics of pleasure and pain and purity. (Short Discount)