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Springer International Publishing AG, Cham
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- About This Book -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: The Lost Virginity of Britney Spears -- Compulsory Demisexuality and the Consummate Virgin -- Part I Virginity and Love in the English Speaking West -- 2 The Demisexual...
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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- About This Book -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: The Lost Virginity of Britney Spears -- Compulsory Demisexuality and the Consummate Virgin -- Part I Virginity and Love in the English Speaking West -- 2 The Demisexual Citizen -- "Human Sexual Nature Changed": Ideal Female Sexual Citizenship in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- The Rise of Romantic Love -- Making Love: The Twentieth Century -- 3 The Good Girl Virgin -- Excavating the Virgin Field: Finding Meaning -- The Unstable Virgin Body and the Value of "Never Doings" -- Virginity and Economics -- Joan of Arc at the Purity Ball: Christianity and Virginity -- Virginity Loss and Love -- Extra Virgin: Where Do We Go from Here? -- Part II Virginity Loss Confessionals -- 4 These Are My Confessions: The History, Project, and Pleasures of the Virginity Loss Confessional Genre -- Petit Récits: The Foucauldian Confessional and the Wedding Night Story -- Propriety to Pleasure: The Historical, Therapeutic, and Political Projects of the Virginity Loss Confessional Genre -- Is It Right? the Romantic Narrative in the Virginity Loss Confessional Genre -- 5 Confessions Part II: Reading the Virginity Loss Confessional Genre -- How to Read a Virginity Loss Story: Methodological Questions -- "I Made It Happen" Versus "It Just Happened": Active and Passive Stories of Virginity Loss -- How to Lose Your Virginity: Narrative Patterns -- The Lesson Narrative -- The Rape Narrative -- The Surrender Narrative -- The Conversion Narrative -- Still a Virgin -- Romantic Partner -- Friend -- Acquaintance -- Stranger -- Authority Figures -- A Natural Step: Romance Narratives -- Rescripting Virginity Loss: Alternatives to Romance -- Historicising Virginity Loss Stories -- Romanticising Virginity Loss -- Part III The Virgin Heroine in the Romance Novel.
