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🇺🇸 United States
Affiliation
Distinguished Professor of English, University of California at Davis
Field of study
Languages, Linguistics and Literature
Residencies at STIAS
2017 2nd Semester
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Unravelling the myth of hymen - Fellows' seminar by Margaret Ferguson

Derived from an ancient Greek word signifying both a ‘thin membrane’ and a sexually ambiguous minor god associated with the celebration of marriage, hymen is a historically contested sign that travels across geographic, temporal, and linguistic borders in ways that remind us that human female virgins are made, not born.