Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance seeks to open a lively and accessible discussion
between critical studies of men and masculinities and popular romance studies, especially …

Love, Sex and Teenage Sexual Cultures in South Africa interrupts the relative silence
around teenage constructions of love in South Africa. Against the backdrop of gender …

The Turkish-language release of Hanne Blank's Virgin: The Untouched History is a
politically engaged translation aimed at disrupting Turkey's heteropatriarchal virginity codes …

“Troye Sivan Is a New Kind of Pop Star: Here, Queer and Used to It” reads the title of
Matthew Scheier's 2018​ New York Times​ article. Heralded as a twenty-first century queer …

Throughout the world, women encounter strong patriarchal values that promote the virtue of
women's chastity. Within numerous conservative societies, such as certain regions of the …

This article proposes that virginity is a site of strange temporality in the modern novel, one
that demonstrates the value of studying time and sexuality as intertwined concepts. With …

This thesis is the first study to apply the rich scholarship produced in the wake of the
“spectral turn” to children's literature. It utilises ghosts and haunting as a deconstructive …

This thesis analyzes the myth of virginity through the experiences of a group of my
hometown friends and colleagues of GEMMA Master. Starting from the dominant …