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The Chastity Plot (Hardcover): Lisabeth During

The Chastity Plot (Hardcover)

Lisabeth During

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In The Chastity Plot, Lisabeth During tells the story of the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity. From its role in the practice of asceticism to its associations with sovereignty, violence, and the purity of nature, it has been loved, honored, and despised. Obsession with chastity has played a powerful and disturbing role in our moral imagination. It has enforced patriarchy's double standards, complicated sexual relations, and imbedded in Western culture a myth of gender that has been long contested by feminists. Still not yet fully understood, the chastity plot remains with us, and the metaphysics of purity continue to haunt literature, religion, and philosophy. Idealized and unattainable, sexual renunciation has shaped social institutions, political power, ethical norms, and clerical abuses. It has led to destruction and passion, to seductive fantasies that inspired saints and provoked libertines. As During shows, it should not be underestimated. Examining literature, religion, psychoanalysis, and cultural history from antiquity through the middle ages and into modernity, During provides a sweeping history of chastity and insight into its subversive potential. Instead of simply asking what chastity is, During considers what chastity can do, why we should care, and how it might provide a productive disruption, generating new ways of thinking about sex, integrity, and freedom.

General

Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2021
First published: 2021
Authors: Lisabeth During
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-74146-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
LSN: 0-226-74146-X
Barcode: 9780226741468

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