Virgins Research Articles

Las creencias en el asfalto. La sacralización como una forma de apropiación del espacio público en la ciudad de México

En este trabajo me interesa explorar una de las formas en que los habitantes de la ciudad de Mexico se apropian del espacio publico urbano, a partir de la sacralizacion de lugares especificos en la via publica. Dicha apropiacion se hace visible con la instalacion de altares, cruces para sus muertos y nichos para virgenes y santos. Estos elementos de la religiosidad popular se conforman no solo en parte del paisaje urbano, sino que tienen una funcion cotidiana –articulada a la proteccion, a la construccion de memoria y al manejo de los espacios liminales– en una ciudad aparentemente caotica, en donde los espacios publicos se consideran “en extincion”. Son elementos que buscan poblar con rostros y nombres propios el espacio del anonimato urbano, generando lugares de sentido y de memoria para los pobladores locales. De esta manera, el espacio publico se constituye en una suerte de escenario en donde lo mas personal de los sujetos y los grupos se hace visible.

The Occasion and Purpose of Alcman's Partheneion (1 PMGF)

This article supports Page's identification of Artemis Orthia as the goddess of Alcman s Partheneion by reading the poem as a companion piece to the ritual endurance contest before Orthia's altar wherein the maidens express solidarity with the young men about to undergo this final test of the agoge.

Ascribing Meaning to the First Time: Examining Metaphors of Virginity

Ascribing Meaning to the First Time: Examining Metaphors of Virginity

The question of NHS independence

Independence, like virginity, is an absolute. Either you are, or you're not. The NHS, while it remains mainly tax-funded and universal, is not.

Virgins for Sale

Virgins for Sale

Christian emperor, vestal virgins and priestly colleges: reconsidering the end of roman paganism

Les mesures prises par Gratien contre le paganisme en 382 nous sont connues essentiellement par la Relatio III de Q. Aurelius Symmachus et par les Epistulae 72 et 73 d’Ambroise de Milan, que la tradition historiographique a versees au dossier de l’affaire de l’autel de la Victoire. La presente contribution examine ces textes en discutant la nature des decisions qui s’y trouvent decrites. Celles-ci ne furent pas dirigees – comme on le pense generalement – contre tous les sacerdoces paiens de Rome, pas plus qu’ils ne provoquerent la requisition de tous les fundi templorum, mais bien plutot renouvelerent l’ordre d’enlever l’autel de la Victoire de la curie senatoriale et concernerent certains des privileges propres aux Vestales, tels que le stipendium, l’exemption des munera, les annonae et le droit de ce college a heriter, a l’avenir, d’agri.

Translation as metaphor in Meridel Le Sueur

Abstract This paper was inspired by a line of Julia Kristeva, revealing the virginity attributed to Mary an effect of translation. According to Kristeva, the scribe chose “the Greek [word] parthenos’’ to translate “the Sernitic word denoting the social-legal status of an unmarried girl” ( 1986, 101). My paper deals with the theory and practical effects of translaltion. Taking translation as a metaphor of ‘rewriting,’ I evaluate the version of the biblical Annunciation by the American writer Meridel Le Sueur. The problems of manipulating texts in (non-metaphorical) translations are examined too. Most importantly, I emphasize the role of connections, such as those between the translated text and its source, the baby and its mother, etc. Hopefully, reflecting on both ‘translation’ and ‘rewriting’ will lead us to a (new) conception of the self-in-relations, with all its ethical consequences. Résumé Cet article s’inspire d’une ligne de Julia Kristeva, qui révèle que la virginité attribuée à Marie est un effet de la traduction. D’après Kristeva, l’auteur a choisi le terme grec parthenos pour traduire le terme sémite signifiant le statut socio-légal d’une fille célibataire (1986, 101). Mon article traite de la théorie et des effets pratiques de la traduction. Considérant la traduction comme une métaphore de la ‘réécriture’, j’évalue la version de l’Annonciation biblique par l’écrivain américain Meridel Le Sueur. Les problèmes de manipulation des textes dans les traductions (non-métaphoriques) sont également examinés. Plus important, je souligne le rôle des connections, comme celles entre le texte traduit et sa source, ou le bébé et sa mère. Espérons que réfléchir à la fois à la ‘traduction’ et à la réécriture’ nous conduira à une (nouvelle) conception du « soi-même en relation avec l’autre », avec toutes ses conséquences éthiques.

Promises, Promises: STI Consequences of Adolescent Virginity Pledges

Do adolescents who make virginity pledges have reduced rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) as young adults? To find out, researchers

Crosses for virgins

Crosses for virgins

Effect of delayed breeding on the reproductive performance of female mice.

The aim of the present study was to determine, in the mouse, whether maintaining females as virgins until an advanced reproductive age was associated with decreased reproductive performance and reproductive lifespan compared with females of the same age that were first mated with males at an earlier reproductive age. Randomly selected virgin hybrid (C57BL/6JIco female x CBA/JIco male) female mice were housed individually with a randomly selected 12- to 14-week-old hybrid male either at the age of 28 weeks (normal breeding group; n = 20) or 51 weeks (delayed breeding group; n = 23) for the rest of their reproductive life. Females were checked once daily to determine the day of parturition and to record the litter size and gender of pups at birth for each consecutive litter. At weaning, offspring were weighed and killed. Delayed breeding was associated with smaller litter sizes, both at birth and at weaning, a higher bodyweight of pups at weaning, a higher percentage of litters with at least one newborn pup cannibalised, earlier cessation of female reproductive life and a higher mortality rate of dams during the breeding period. These results show that delayed breeding in the mouse is associated with decreased reproductive performance and a shorter reproductive lifespan compared with females bred at an earlier reproductive age.

Medieval Virginities ed. by Anke Bernau, Ruth Evans, Sarah Salih (review)

Medieval Virginities ed. by Anke Bernau, Ruth Evans, Sarah Salih (review)

The Creation of Consent in the Physician's Tale

In a remarkable moment of Physician 's Tale Virginia consents to her own death, asking her father Virginius to kill her: Yif me my deeth, er that I have a shame, she implores him (VI 249).1 This moment, like all those when Virginia speaks, appears neither Chaucer's stated source, Livy's history, which Chaucer may or may not have known, nor his unstated source, Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose, which Chaucer most certainly did know.2 This particular addition arises from Virginius's response to evil judge Apius's demand that Virginia be handed into his custody. As Virginius understands situation, he is faced with a ter rible choice for his daughter: to hand her to Apius in lecherie to lyven (VI 206), or to kill her, ending her life before Apius can take her virgin ity. What is remarkable about this moment Physician s Tale is not so much that Virginius decides it is better for his daughter to be dead than dishonored (taking her head to save her maidenhead, as some have explained pun) ,3 but instead that Virginia herself agrees with this deci sion. Virginia's consent to her own death, added to story by Chaucer, is only one improbable moment a tale generally considered faulty, but it is, I believe, a crucial moment. In this essay I will argue that primary question that drives this tale is what might lead a young woman to decide that death is preferable to loss of virginity and to agree to her own death. While some Chaucerians have simply condemned Physician 's Tale (it is, one succinctly stated, the faultiest of Canterbury Tales), many more have analyzed problems with tale, providing a variety of diag noses.4 Noting that story as told Livy's history and Roman de la Rose is explicitly political, Sheila Delany has argued that Physician's Tale Chaucer introduces political ideas but is subsequently unwilling or unable to treat them as plot develops.5 Angus Fletcher also sees tale as moving away from question of explicitly political authority, but contends that it takes up questions of writerly and historical authority.6 Linda Lomperis contends that authority question is authority over bodies, and she reads tale a split between physical body and

Paragons of Piety: Representations of Priesthood in the Lives of the Haarlem Virgins

Paragons of Piety: Representations of Priesthood in the Lives of the Haarlem Virgins

Stamp out technology virginity

Technology virginity and technology virgins are everywhere -- and more influential than you might like. Time to go on the offensive.

Stamp out technology virginity

Technology virginity and technology virgins are everywhere -- and more influential than you might like. Time to go on the offensive.

The Feast of the Nine Virgins

The Feast of the Nine Virgins

Gender outside Marriage: Reconsidering Medieval Widowhood and Virginity

Gender outside Marriage: Reconsidering Medieval Widowhood and Virginity

Review. 'A City with No Virgins' Berlin and Writers of the Thirties.

Review. 'A City with No Virgins' Berlin and Writers of the Thirties.

Virginity

Virginity

Well fed crickets bowl maidens over

Well fed crickets bowl maidens over