Michael Rosenberg

Signs of Virginity

Testing Virgins and Making Men in Late Antiquity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 165mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780190845896
• ISBN-10: 0190845899
• Artikelnr.: 48854034

Autorenporträt

Michael Rosenberg is assistant professor of rabbinics at Hebrew College.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction - Defining Virginity, Making Men
* Part One: Testing Virginity in the Body
* Chapter One - Testing Virginity in the Body
* Chapter Two - Bloodied Sheets: The Biblical Nuptial Bed as Rape Scene
* Chapter Three - "Trustworthy Women" and Other Witnesses: Tweaking
Deuteronomy in Pre-Rabbinic and Early Rabbinic Judaism
* Part Two: Testing Virginity through Faith
* Chapter Four - Doubts and Faith: Possible Alternatives in Three
First-Century Jewish Authors
* Chapter Five - Struck by Wood, Struck by God: Virginity
Beyond/Despite Anatomy
* Part Three: Subjecting Virginity
* Chapter Six - Open Doors and Accused Brides: Subjectivity and a New
Standard for Virginity Testing in Rabbinic Babylonia
* Chapter Seven - Impure Nuptials and Sex as Work: The Bavli's
Attempted Divorce of Virginity from Violence
* Chapter Eight - (De)Mythologizing the Hymen: Augustine, the Bavli,
and the Rejection of Force
* Epilogue
* Bibliography