Description: Delving into everything from medieval drama to Bollywood films to the Twilight franchise, Virgin Envy examines the elusive state of virginity.
Brief description: Jonathan A. Allan is Canada research chair in queer theory and assistant professor of gender and women's studies and English and creative writing at Brandon University. He is the author of Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus.
Review Quotes:
"Peers into the messy, tangled world of virginity via examinations of Twilight, True Blood, Tahrir Square activism, and Bollywood." --Broadly
"Ambitious, wide-ranging, and eclectic." --Corrinne Harol, author of Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature "Smart and au courant ... Virgin Envy provides a welcome addition to the new subfield of virginity studies with an intrepid array of old and new, Western and non-Western, virgins and virginities." --Hanne Blank, author of Virgin: The Untouched History