AcknowledgementsIntroduction: "Our Tantalizing Double": Envious Virgins, Envying Virgins, Virgin Envy -- Jonathan A. Allan, Cristina Santos, and Adriana SpahrPart 1: Too Much Pain for Such a Little Reward1. "I will cut myself and smear blood on the sheet": Testing Virginity in Medieval and Modern Romance -- Amy Burge2. Between Pleasure and Pain: The Textual Politics of the Hymen -- Jodi McAlisterPart 2: Blood, Blood, Blood.and More Blood3. The Politics of Virginity and Abstinence in the Twilight Saga -- Jonathan A. Allan and Cristina Santos4. Lady of Perpetual Virginity: Jessica's Presence in True Blood -- Janice Zehentbauer and Cristina SantosPart 3: Men Be Virgins Too: Queering Virginity5.

The Queer Saint: Male Virginity in Derek Jarman's Sebastiane Kevin McGuinness6. Troping Boyishness, Effeminacy and Masculine Queer Virginity: Abdella Taïa and Eyet-Chékib Djaziri Gibson NcubePart 4: F*ck: They Entrapped Us in Social Issues and Politics7. Bollywood Virgins: Diachronic Flirtations With Indian Womanhood Asma Sayed8. The Policing of Viragos and Other 'Fuckable' Bodies: The Politics of Virginity in Latin American Women's Testimony -- Tracy Crowe Morey and Adriana SpahrAbout the ContributorsIndex.