The Consummate Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Anglophone Popular Literatures

By Jodi McAlister

Book Overview

1.Introduction: The Lost Virginity of Britney Spears.- 2. Chapter One - The Demisexual Citizen.- 3. Chapter Two - The Good Girl Virgin.- 4. Chapter Three - These Are My Confessions: The History, Project, and Pleasures of the Virginity Loss Confessional Genre.- 5. Chapter Four - Confessions Part II: Reading the Virginity Loss Confessional Genre.- 6. Chapter Five - This Modern Love: The Virgin Heroine in Historical Romance Fiction.- 7. Chapter Six - Middle Class Morality: The Virgin Heroine in Contemporary Category Romance Fiction.- 8. Chapter Seven - Virginity Loss in the Twenty-First Century and Reactions to Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey.- 9. Conclusion - Virgin Territory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030550060
• ISBN13: 9783030550066
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"