Signs Of Virginity: Testing Virgins And Making Men In Late Antiquity

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.

• | Author: Michael Rosenberg
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 07, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 329 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Religion
• | ISBN-10: 0190845899
• | ISBN-13: 9780190845896