The consummate virgin : female virginity loss and love in anglophone popular literatures / Jodi McAlister.
'This lively and clever book gave me a new concept: "compulsory demisexuality" as the governing law of romance for female sexual behavior. Making brilliant and original use of virginity loss confessionals and romance novels, McAlister crafts a highly readable interdisciplinary tour-de...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- 1.Introduction: The Lost Virginity of Britney Spears.- 2. Chapter One
- The Demisexual Citizen.- 3. Chapter Two
- The Good Girl Virgin.- 4. Chapter Three
- These Are My Confessions: The History, Project, and Pleasures of the Virginity Loss Confessional Genre.- 5. Chapter Four
- Confessions Part II: Reading the Virginity Loss Confessional Genre.- 6. Chapter Five
- This Modern Love: The Virgin Heroine in Historical Romance Fiction.- 7. Chapter Six
- Middle Class Morality: The Virgin Heroine in Contemporary Category Romance Fiction.- 8. Chapter Seven
- Virginity Loss in the Twenty-First Century and Reactions to Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey.- 9. Conclusion
- Virgin Territory.