Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: “Our Tantalizing Double”: Envious Virgins, Envying Virgins, Virgin Envy 1
5. PART 1: TOO MUCH PAIN FOR SUCH LITTLE REWARD
6. Chapter 1 “I Will Cut Myself and Smear Blood on the Sheet”: Testing Virginity in Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance 17
7. Chapter 2 Between Pleasure and Pain: The Textual Politics of the Hymen 45
8. PART 2: BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD . . . AND MORE BLOOD
9. Chapter 3 The Politics of Virginity and Abstinence in the Twilight Saga 67
10. Chapter 4 Lady of Perpetual Virginity: Jessica’s Presence in True Blood 97
11. PART 3: MEN BE VIRGINS TOO: QUEERING VIRGINITY
12. Chapter 5 The Queer Saint: Male Virginity in Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane 127
13. Chapter 6 Troping Boyishness, Effeminacy, and Masculine Queer Virginity: Abdellah Taïa and Eyet-Chékib Djaziri 145
14. PART 4: F*CK: THEY ENTRAPPED US IN SOCIAL ISSUES AND POLITICS
15. Chapter 7 Bollywood Virgins: Diachronic Flirtations with Indian Womanhood 173
16. Chapter 8 The Policing of Viragos and Other “Fuckable” Bodies: Virginity as Performance in Latin America 191
17. Contributors 233
18. Index 237