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The consummate virgin: female virginity loss and love in anglophone popular literatures

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posted on 2020-01-01, 00:00 authored by Jodi McAlisterJodi McAlister
This book is a study of female virginity loss and its representations in popular Anglophone literatures. It explores dominant cultural narratives around what makes a “good” female virginity loss experience by examining two key forms of popular literature: autobiographical virginity loss stories and popular romance fiction. In particular, this book focuses on how female sexual desire and romantic love have become entangled in the contemporary cultural imagination, leading to the emergence of a dominant paradigm which dictates that for women, sexual desire and love are and should be intrinsically linked together: something which has greatly affected cultural scripts for virginity loss. This book examines the ways in which this paradigm has been negotiated, upheld, subverted, and resisted in depictions of virginity loss in popular literatures, unpacking the romanticisation of the idea of “the right one” and “the right time”.

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Pagination

1-282

ISBN-13

9783030550035

ISBN-10

3030550044

Language

eng

Publication classification

A1 Books - authored - research

Number of chapters

9

Publisher

Springer Nature

Place of publication

Cham, Switzerland