TY - BOOK ID - 118337554 TI - Virgin territory : configuring female virginity in early Christianity PY - 2023 SN - 9780520389021 9780520389014 0520389018 PB - Oakland, California : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Virginity KW - Women in Christianity KW - Sexual abstinence KW - Defloration KW - First sexual experiences KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - History of doctrines KW - History KW - 396.7 KW - 27 "00/05" KW - 27 "00/05" Histoire de l'Eglise--?"00/05" KW - 27 "00/05" Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/05" KW - Histoire de l'Eglise--?"00/05" KW - Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/05" KW - 396.7 Vrouw en religie KW - Vrouw en religie KW - Early church. KW - 30-600. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118337554 AB - "Women's virginity held tremendous significance in early Christianity and the Mediterranean world. Julia Kelto Lillis demonstrates that early Christian thinkers developed diverse definitions of virginity and understood its bodily aspects in surprising, often nonanatomical ways. Eventually Christians took part in a cross-cultural shift toward viewing virginity as something that could be perceived in women's sex organs. Treating virginity as anatomical brought both benefits and costs. By charting this shift and situating it in the larger landscape of ancient thought, Virgin Territory illuminates unrecognized differences among early Christian sources and historicizes problematic ideas about women's bodies that still persist today"-- ER -