TY - GEN AB - 'Signs of Virginity' examines virginity testing in Judaism and early Christianity, and the relationship of these tests to male sexual violence. Rosenberg points to two authors - Augustine of Hippo and the rabbinic collective that produced the Babylonian Talmud - who construct alternative models that, if taken seriously, would utterly reverse cultural ideals of masculinity, encouraging men to be gentle, rather than brutal, in their sexual behaviour. AU - Rosenberg, Micha'el, CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - BM645.V57 ID - 808674 KW - Virginity KW - Sex crimes KW - Masculinity KW - Virginity KW - Sex crimes KW - Masculinity LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190845896.001.0001 N2 - 'Signs of Virginity' examines virginity testing in Judaism and early Christianity, and the relationship of these tests to male sexual violence. Rosenberg points to two authors - Augustine of Hippo and the rabbinic collective that produced the Babylonian Talmud - who construct alternative models that, if taken seriously, would utterly reverse cultural ideals of masculinity, encouraging men to be gentle, rather than brutal, in their sexual behaviour. SN - 9780190845926 T1 - Signs of virginity :testing virgins and making men in late antiquity / TI - Signs of virginity :testing virgins and making men in late antiquity / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190845896.001.0001 ER -