Age chastity in middle performing testing virginity

Description:Although the hymen is mentioned in works of medieval medicine, she demonstrates that it was only one among many tests for virginity. London and New York: Informed by constructivist feminism, the book demonstrates that even virginity testing, a quintessential locus for the belief that the body can be empirically known, is in fact culturally constructed. How does postcolonial theory help distinguish these various cultural particularities from the commonalities preserved in translation? In her first chapter Kelly examines a wide range of classical and medieval medical treatises and patristic texts from Soranus second century A. You are not currently authenticated. Arguing from the implicit assumption that her readers will believe the hymen to be a clear physiological mark of virginity, she shows that, in fact, it was not the hymen but the condition of the uterus that was seen as evidence for virginity in early classical writing.

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