Anke Bernau
Autor von Virgins: A Cultural History
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Anke Bernau has taught at the University of Cardiff and currently teaches medieval literature at the University of Manchester.
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It examines briefly how there can never be an agreement of what constitutes virginity in terms of sexual experience as it appears that there are as many opinions as there are options for virginal states.
Taken in a broader context in certain historical periods in the UK and Europe, it becomes an economic asset in the great succession and inheritance debate - yet it is a condition and a price that is only ever attached to women.
Anyone pursuing gender studies or women's studies would be well advised to add this text to their reading lists.… (mehr)